Repairing an old Rooftop Antenna

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

Here's a picture of my rooftop antenna setup.

That's a UHF reflector antenna... Should be fairly good for UHF DX once it's been spruced up. It isn't the channel master parabolic UHF ant that is the holy grail, but it should still give good performance.

That's a directional antenna so you will want a rotor for that unless all the stations you care about are in one direction relative to your house.

[zeno]

Yup its UHF ONLY but it will get some VHF if very close. We put a
few of this style up at "problem" locations. Used a quality foam
300 ohm twin lead ( less loss than coax ) & sometimes a preamp.
From the Boston area could get UHF from Saco Me, Hartford Ct,
Springfield Ma & others. NTSC of course All way out there
up to 100 miles.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

That's a UHF reflector antenna... Should be fairly good for UHF DX once it's been spruced up. It isn't the channel master parabolic UHF ant that is the holy grail, but it should still give good performance.

That's a directional antenna so you will want a rotor for that unless all the stations you care about are in one direction relative to your house.

The reason why there's a UHF Antenna on the roof of the house (strictly UHF Antenna) is because when UHF TV channels came onto the Scene Northern Indiana was one of the Test Markets for UHF TV because all of the TV Stations in Northern Indiana (South Bend and Fort Wayne area) were all on the UHF Band, and nothing on the VHF Band, the closest VHF Band Station was WGN out of Chicago on Channel 9 where it still remains to this day.

The Original Big Three Networks (NBC, CBS and ABC) were on 16, 22, and 28 respectively, and then you had some independant channels as well (LP stations) that were on 46, and 67 (before there was a channel reconfiguration after Fox and The WB became a thing in the late 1990s) Then ABC was moved to 58 (then to 57 eventually), Fox then took over 28 (which had previously been where the ABC Affiliate was at), The WB (which is now the CW) was on 69 (then to 25 eventually) and 67 was TBN (Trinity Broadcast Network) was then moved to channel 18 (and now it doesn't even exist at all on Antenna in our area, because it went away when the DTV Transistion happened) That's the Channel Lineup for the North Central Indiana and SouthWestern Michigan area.

The channel lineup for the Northeastern Indiana and South Central Michigan area was 15 being the CBS Affiliate, 21 the ABC Affiliate, and 33 Being the NBC Affiliate, and Fox was on 55.

AFAIK there was no WB/CW Affiliate in the Fort Wayne Area, and Fort Wayne didn't seem to have any Independant stations either like we have in South Bend (46 WHME which is a Christian Station that was owned by World Harvest Ministries that was started in the 1970s by the late Dr. Lester Sumrall.)

Fun Fact: The NBC Affiliate Out of South Bend, Indiana was originally owned and operated by Notre Dame University (WBND, which the ND in the station's call letters referred to The University of Notre Dame, its original owners.)