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[QUOTE=&quot;MrPogi, post: 128067, member: 5542&quot;]When posting your TVfool, pictures get shrunk to unreadable size. Please post a link back to the page rather than an image.Far Northern NY and the Adirondacks is difficult for TV... Not a lot of stations and a lot of trees and mountains. I am familiar with the area - I was born near Watertown and spent summers camping in those mountains at Cranberry Lake - Saranac Lake - Lake Placid. WWNY Channel 7 is out of Watertown, NY. They chose to stay on VHF and thus their signal travels better than UHF stations much closer to you. First I would check out that existing antenna and the cabling to ensure that all connections and the Coax cable are good. It should be RG6 coax, not RG59. Ensure that there are NO splitters or splices in the cable - you should use a single length of coax from the antenna to the TV. There is also a slim chance you may get CKWS-DT on channel 11 out of Canada, but I wouldn't count on it. This is a case where I think a GOOD low noise pre-amp may just make enough of a&nbsp; difference to stop most of the breakups on channel 7 as a last resort. Antenna point doesn't take into account the terrain, while TVfool does. I suspect that the 2 UHF stations don't show on TV fool because mountains block the signal.&nbsp; Try moving around your location on TVfool within the confines of your property, and adjusting the height, and see if anything pops up on your chart. Sometimes you get lucky and find a &quot;hot spot&quot; where you can receive a refracted (edge) signal. Since you already have that antenna, it wouldn't hurt to attach it to a portable TV (if you have one) and walk it around your property trying at differing heights and locations.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="MrPogi, post: 128067, member: 5542"]When posting your TVfool, pictures get shrunk to unreadable size. Please post a link back to the page rather than an image. Far Northern NY and the Adirondacks is difficult for TV... Not a lot of stations and a lot of trees and mountains. I am familiar with the area - I was born near Watertown and spent summers camping in those mountains at Cranberry Lake - Saranac Lake - Lake Placid. [B]WWNY Channel 7[/B] is out of Watertown, NY. They chose to stay on VHF and thus their signal travels better than UHF stations much closer to you. First I would check out that existing antenna and the cabling to ensure that all connections and the Coax cable are good. It should be RG6 coax, not RG59. Ensure that there are NO splitters or splices in the cable - you should use a single length of coax from the antenna to the TV. There is also a slim chance you may get [B]CKWS-DT on channel 11[/B] out of Canada, but I wouldn't count on it. This is a case where I think a GOOD low noise pre-amp may just make enough of a difference to stop most of the breakups on channel 7 [B][I]as a last resort.[/I][/B] Antenna point doesn't take into account the terrain, while TVfool does. I suspect that the 2 UHF stations don't show on TV fool because mountains block the signal. Try moving around your location on TVfool within the confines of your property, and adjusting the height, and see if anything pops up on your chart. Sometimes you get lucky and find a "hot spot" where you can receive a refracted (edge) signal. Since you already have that antenna, it wouldn't hurt to attach it to a portable TV (if you have one) and walk it around your property trying at differing heights and locations.[/QUOTE]

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