am I ready for HD? (signal)

[mattg]

I live about 2 blocks from 92nd and greenfield in West Allis.

I just put up an antenna in my attic. All of the main analog stations look decent (4,6,10,12,18,24,36,58,63) There is some very minor ghosting on a few stations. I think it's caused by downtown which I'm guessing is about 70* from my house, while the broadcasting towers are between 15* and 55*.  I have my antenna aimed at about 32*

Will this cause any problems with the digital signal? is there anything else I can do to make sure I'll get good digital signal?

[Talos4]

You should be good to go!

The ghosting of the analog signal is probably multipath and should not affect the digital signal.

With the digital signal it's all or basically nothing. You get it or you don't.

Once your hooked up for HD, you may have to tweak the aiming a bit if you have any break up of the digital signal.  

But, from your location you really shouldn't have any problems.

Let us know!


and, Welcome to the Forum! :wave:

[Will]

Matt,

You probably went to antennaweb.org, right?  Well, the data they have for 6.1's tower location is wrong.  It's on the same tower as 6 analog.  That bad antennaweb data had me chasing my tail for a while, as I was having trouble getting 6.1 reliably.

Therefore, you can move your antenna a bit, as it looks like you should be between 40* and 53* for all channels.  If you get a good signal on analog, especially the UHF portion, you should be OK for digital.  Only way to know for sure is to try, though.

Hope that helps,
Will