I live in San Jose, CA and would like to get over the air reception of HDTV broadcasts. All of the local channels that I care to get broadcast from either Sutro Tower in San Francisco, or San Bruno mountain, about 35 to 40 miles away. From my location in West San Jose, they are all between 305 to 310 degrees azimuth, according to antennaweb.org.
It seems like a highly directional Yagi or one of those multi-bay grid antennas would work fine. However, most of the compact antennas are UHF only. This works fine for all but the local NBC channel, that plans to broadcast on VHF channel 12. My question is whether I can still receive this station reliably with a UHF-only antenna. My house is a two-story, so I can get the antenna up pretty high, but I wanted to avoid a huge VHF/UHF antenna, which would require a mast and guy wires.
2007-07-04 05:53:33 · 3 answers · asked by link 7 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
When the change to digital is complete, all channels will be in the UHF band, as we know it now. There will be no more channels 2-13. You should do nicely with just a decent UHF antenna for the digital or HD channels.
2007-07-11 19:34:03 · answer #1 · answered by Edward B 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A majority of HDTV signals are in UHF frequency band. In analog tv terms, that's channels 14 - 83. In general, an HDTV antenna is one that's geared towards the reception of UHF frequencies. Off-air or on air? They're the same. Maybe a more accurate term would be "over the air"?
2016-05-18 00:26:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order to get HD signal over the air, you need to be close enough to the local channels to get a strong signal, and secondly, you will NEED to buy an outdoor HD antenna.
2007-07-04 11:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by The Count 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋