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[Victor Odhner]

Try putting it up high, or near a window facing South Mountain.

So much depends on your location.

I took down our roof antenna because we were getting a new roof. To spare my family the grief of several days without TV, I bought an indoor antenna and put it in our crawlspace facing south towards TV Hill, ~18-20 miles away slightly behind Piestewa peak. I'm near SR51 & Thunderbird.

Played with the positioning and direction, but lost several must-have stations. I had family doing channel scans as I laid in the crawlspace, but had to back away from the antenna each time because my body affected the signal.

I added an amplifier which helped a little.

Finally folded up our *large* roof array and deployed it inside the crawlspace, facing the way that had worked while on the roof. That works almost as well as the roof, but Channel 5 is badly pixellated and if I park my little pickup truck in the carport right under the array, several channels are messed up.

So I'll have to put it back on the roof. That's a pain because the wind turns it around if I don't guy it from all sides. But I know the best direction so it'll be solid once I'm done.

Lots of articles about this. Outdoor is best, higher is better. Any obstacles may block an indoor antenna, especially metal in the wall. But indoor can be great when you're only 12 miles away and have the antenna on the side facing TV Hill, especially if that is in line of sight (i.e. no major obstructions).

Our array is about 8 feet front to back, and the rearmost cross-element is about that wide too. It’s served us well, the only problem is when the wind twists it away from proper direction. “Good” alignment is anywhere in a range of 10 - 20 degrees. In PHX you don't need a rotator for major channels because all the action is on TV Hill.

On the roof we got solid signals from 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 45, 61 plus several stations we don't use.

Good Luck!


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