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<blockquote data-quote="GJC" data-source="post: 874866" data-attributes="member: 120757">Where are you located? You must be south of me to get Buffalo regularly. I'm just outside of Waterloo about 7km west of the north end of the city. My wife won't let me put up a tower, so my antenna is only up 30 ft. My TVFool report shows WNLO as my strongest Buffalo station at a NM of -1.2dbm. WNED is next best at -10.0, way too weak to consider for daytime viewing.I have a CM4228HD with a CM7777 preamp. I modified the antenna to remove its phasing harness and use 2 baluns and a splitter. It helped the high-uhf channels a tiny bit, but Buffalo stations are in and out. WNLO is the best, I can actually get a lock on it during the day, but it's not that watchable until the evening.I can only get 2 Toronto stations regularly, CBC (strong) and CIII (medium, has dropped out on rare occasion). We have a CIII very nearby in Paris ON, but my antenna simply won't do low-VHF, so I have to turn the antenna to Toronto to get it from there. I wish I could get CJMT, it's our favourite station on cable, but when I stop my cable service I won't get it anymore. It only comes in on the antenna during a good &quot;tropo&quot;. They are supposed to move to channel 40, but the predicted signal strength will still only make it &quot;occasional evenings and rainy days only&quot;.It's going to be interesting to see how the family will react to the new home theatre PC setup once I stop the cable service. Hopefully Internet viewing will go a long way towards easing the transition, because our derth of OTA channels won't help much!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GJC, post: 874866, member: 120757"] Where are you located? You must be south of me to get Buffalo regularly. I'm just outside of Waterloo about 7km west of the north end of the city. My wife won't let me put up a tower, so my antenna is only up 30 ft. My TVFool report shows WNLO as my strongest Buffalo station at a NM of -1.2dbm. WNED is next best at -10.0, way too weak to consider for daytime viewing. I have a CM4228HD with a CM7777 preamp. I modified the antenna to remove its phasing harness and use 2 baluns and a splitter. It helped the high-uhf channels a tiny bit, but Buffalo stations are in and out. WNLO is the best, I can actually get a lock on it during the day, but it's not that watchable until the evening. I can only get 2 Toronto stations regularly, CBC (strong) and CIII (medium, has dropped out on rare occasion). We have a CIII very nearby in Paris ON, but my antenna simply won't do low-VHF, so I have to turn the antenna to Toronto to get it from there. I wish I could get CJMT, it's our favourite station on cable, but when I stop my cable service I won't get it anymore. It only comes in on the antenna during a good "tropo". They are supposed to move to channel 40, but the predicted signal strength will still only make it "occasional evenings and rainy days only". It's going to be interesting to see how the family will react to the new home theatre PC setup once I stop the cable service. Hopefully Internet viewing will go a long way towards easing the transition, because our derth of OTA channels won't help much! [/QUOTE]

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