SWHouston

FOX_TV,

We have much the same situation here in Houston, save that there are Seven Antenna Farms around us.
The Main one is south in Mo (Missouri) City at W95.658/N29.570.
It has around 40 main with many having 3 subs, and others with 6 subs, making about 60 or so. The other Farms provide us with another 25 or so channels.

Understood that it takes a powerful setup to reach out for some of those Farms, and the usual approach is just to aim at the Mo City, which has all of the Majors, and several that I for one, have no interest in at all.

So, I'm going to say a comfortable 85 for us if you wanna spend the bucks to get them. Otherwise, a Paper Clip will get you about 30

Have a good Day !
S.W.

weroberts

Update:
I'm at 27 with Subs with an indoor antenna, (no amp) I developed with the farthest station being 35.6 miles away and a NM (dB) of 35.5. This covers anything LOS The Compass headings are mainly 97 degrees but the farther stations are 135 degrees from me.

SWHouston

WER,
If what you're saying is that your getting 27 Channels with your Indoor Antenna and that TR-40 Box at 36 miles, that's EXCEPTIONAL !
Hang on to that combo !

I bet it's a lot to do with the Tuner in the TR-40. I know the DTVPal Plus has a Silicone Tuner (as opposed to the cheaper Metal ones) and the TR must have the same. GOOD VIEWING to you !

Have a good Day !
S.W.

JakesDTVBlog

On a couple of rare occasions, I've topped 50 channels (including subs) with just a coat-hanger antenna and my Maggotbox converters, but a normal daytime number is around 20, with up to 30 about 3 to 4 nights a week.

If I was able to be in the RV more often, the Winegard Sensar batwing antenna, which is boosted, can sometimes grab a few more channels. But with winter coming on, I've got that rig bedded down for the duration.

DTVuser2009

with the Winter-time Squalls happening now, i don't pick up nearly the amounts i used to. i can still hold onto WAZE-DT each night and sometimes WBKO comes in (why WAZE is so perfect i don't know, i'm thinking they finally got it together) but others such as WPSD have been MIA save for a week or so back, i got it long enough to pull in a radar image.

With my crappaq Presuckio working with Linux though, and internet finally being distributed wirelessly throughout the entire resort (waited 3 years for that!) the chances of watching OTA much any more are becoming thin. Youtube and many other sites are hosting shows i used to have to pay a satellite subscription for. shows like Star Trek TNG and Voyager, old Toon Disney favorites, and some Nickelodeon shows, in addition to my fixes of previously lost classic TV favorites such as The Munsters, The A-Team, and Airwolf (not the remake) among them.

staticMHZ

Right in the heart of LA I'd imagine has the most. You guys in the city have alot of luck with just a cheap UHF/Dipole. I get about 12-15 right now because the leaves are gone.

TVmadness

72 channels
Good question, I live in livermore, Ca. This is about 50 miles East of San Francisco or San Jose. I am using an Elgato EyeTV 500 box, hooked up to my Macintosh. I also have a decoder box (Apex DT250, second one, first one burned up at the start of November) hooked up to my TV. Both use the same antenna (Winegard HD 4400 4-Bay), via a splitter and a radio shack antenna amplifier. I just did a scan using the Elgato box, 72 channels. I don't know about anyone else, but here I am receiving channel 1-1 through 1-12. Interesting programming, like 1980s MTV and Monterey Ca. television for any divers. Also international television and Flash Gordon, Roy Rogers and Dale E, Crash Gordon, The Andy Griffith Show and lots of old time TV shows.
Livermore is located in a valley. There are hills between me and the SF bay, also there is a quite large Mountain north of here, Mount Diablo, and South is Mount Hamilton. So I must be getting some bending of the waves on a reliable basis since I have good signal strength on many of my channels except channel 11, NBC. I am going to change my antenna to a Antennas Direct DB8 to see if this improves the signal strength between the day and night reception. I like these Bow Tie antennas because of their low wind loading. All of my old Yagi antenna have been removed or damaged by high winds. Oh I forgot to mention that my antenna is roof mounted about 35 feet above ground.

Aaron62

wow I need to try an outdoor antenna. I'm a bit south of you (in northern LA) but only manage 30-35 stations (depending on weather and outside conditions). Outstanding though, I wish I could mount something on the roof of my apartment complex but they won't let me.

SWHouston

Aaron,

Just wanted to point out some very "Sneaky" type Antennas.
On some occasions, when these are Flat Mounted against a building,
they look like Vent Covers, and are frequently "permitted" because of the
non TV Antenna look.

Of course, this depends on if you have a location/outside wall facing the Transmitters,
but, these are fairly Multi-Directional, so, aiming a little off center or an alternate wall may work.
Could be that one of these may let you get an Antenna outside ?

Take a look at a...
Vertical Round Antenna
or the...
The “Shirt Box” type

Have a good Day !
S.W.

FOX TV

Maggotbox converters...LOL Great line !! I do like them if for no other reason than the numerical signal strength readout instead of a graphical scale where you have to use a sharpie or tape and mark your CRT screen to see if there are any improvements in signal strength if you change anything.