Looking for antenna help

I'm looking for help selecting an antenna. I currently live about 10 miles from the city of Pittsburgh and I use a Terk TV 55 antenna (with amplifier) to pick up local HD channels. It works perfectly. In December, I'm going to be moving about 20 miles away from the city, and antennaweb.org shows that I'm going to need an antenna with a "blue" code. My question is, will my current Terk HD55 be strong enough or will I need something stronger? And if I do need something stronger, what are my options? What's out there? I wish Dish would broadcast HD locals in Pittsburgh and I could be done with this crap. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Dave

I'm looking for help selecting an antenna. I currently live about 10 miles from the city of Pittsburgh and I use a Terk TV 55 antenna (with amplifier) to pick up local HD channels. It works perfectly. In December, I'm going to be moving about 20 miles away from the city, and antennaweb.org shows that I'm going to need an antenna with a "blue" code. My question is, will my current Terk HD55 be strong enough or will I need something stronger? And if I do need something stronger, what are my options? What's out there? I wish Dish would broadcast HD locals in Pittsburgh and I could be done with this crap. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Dave

I use a Silver Sensor (sim. to the Terk, and no amp) with no problem. Most stations are 22-25 miles.
If I followed antennaweb.org I would have spent another 100 bucks and some time putting up an outdoor antenna when I can get by fine without it.
But I am fortunate enough to not have to deal with structures being in a rural area.
Antennaweb.org has no idea what your immediate surroundings are like outside of natural surroundings like mountain ranges, etc. So they have to recommend an outdoor antenna to avoid having to cover every possible scenario. Given all that, they are still an invaluable resource for locating transmitters in your area, as well as antenna recommendations for more fringe reception.
My advice, just wait until you move and see what you can still pick up.
You might be pleasantly surprised, or can even compromise and use an attic antenna. If you need an outside antenna, you have already found a good resource for selecting one.

I use a Channel Master 4228 antenna mounted in my attic and it works great. My stations are about 40 miles away. This antenna is directional and UHF only for HD stations only. My Terk 55 was terrible and didn't pick up anything. This antenna is large but I was able to mount it hanging down from the roof studs in the attic on a mount and pole I bought from Lowes. If your stations are scattered about this antenna will not work well. I get everything except one station.....all at about 90%.

I use a Channel Master 4228 antenna mounted in my attic and it works great. My stations are about 40 miles away. This antenna is directional and UHF only for HD stations only. My Terk 55 was terrible and didn't pick up anything. This antenna is large but I was able to mount it hanging down from the roof studs in the attic on a mount and pole I bought from Lowes. If your stations are scattered about this antenna will not work well. I get everything except one station.....all at about 90%.

There is no such thing as an HD antenna, let alone an HD-only one or a digital-only one. The CM 4228 is primarily a UHF antenna but it provides decent to good gain on the VHF high band (channels 7 to 13) and it works well with both analogue and digital broadcasts. If paired with a rotator, it doesn't matter if the stations are scattered (it's your set up of the antenna that doesn't work well with scattered stations). However, in a multi-TV house that has all TV's being fed by the same antenna a rotator can lead to many arguments.

I realize it is not for HD only. It is not optimized for receiving the analog channels on the VHF band. Mind is hard mounted without a rotor so I don't receive some HD channels very well but most come in good. I don't use mine for analog channels because I already get them on my Dish receiver.

I'm looking for help selecting an antenna. I currently live about 10 miles from the city of Pittsburgh and I use a Terk TV 55 antenna (with amplifier) to pick up local HD channels. It works perfectly. In December, I'm going to be moving about 20 miles away from the city, and antennaweb.org shows that I'm going to need an antenna with a "blue" code. My question is, will my current Terk HD55 be strong enough or will I need something stronger? And if I do need something stronger, what are my options? What's out there? I wish Dish would broadcast HD locals in Pittsburgh and I could be done with this crap. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Dave

I live about 28 miles from the TV towers and I get all my HD local stations fine. All I have is a UHF corner reflector from Radio Shack.

Th antenna you have should work just fine.

I live about 28 miles from the TV towers and I get all my HD local stations fine. All I have is a UHF corner reflector from Radio Shack.

Th antenna you have should work just fine.

Providing no nearby obstacles. That's usually the biggest problem with an indoor antenna because you are limited in height. Of course, if you live 70 miles from the nearest transmitter you have other limitations.
I have read of people mounting an indoor antenna outside, under eaves, etc.. Kind of extreme, depending on the design of it you might be fine with transmitters all within close proximity or close to 180 deg out, because tweaking it for different stations would be a real PIA. :)

I realize it is not for HD only. It is not optimized for receiving the analog channels on the VHF band. Mind is hard mounted without a rotor so I don't receive some HD channels very well but most come in good. I don't use mine for analog channels because I already get them on my Dish receiver.

I realize that you were actually describing your use of the CM 4228, but your phrasing was such that it could easily mislead an uninformed reader into thinking that the CM4228 was a UHF-only, HD-only antenna. The purpose of my post was to counter any such false impressions.