Here in the SF Bay area, people have reported success using a CM4221 or CM4228 (both UHF-only bowties setups) to pick up KNTV-11, which broadcasts in VHF channel 12.
Perhaps if your local VHF station is also on 12, you can use a UHF antenna to receive it too.
Note that I don't use a 4228 to pick up KNTV-11, I actually find that they are on VHF to be a huge advantage. I use a Yagi to pick up KNTV-11 and use a VHF/UHF splitter reversed (in combiner mode) so that the yagi picks up KNTV-11 and my 4228 picks up the UHF signals. This is advantageous because KNTV-11's transmitter is in a different location than some of the others, and this lets me aim each antenna better.
If your channel is in VHF-Hi (7-13), you can use a much smaller yagi than you think. This is helped by the better signal propagation of VHF over UHF.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
Since it has no gain in VHF spectrum, it's not useful for my region, where at least one of the HD broadcasts is, and will remain, VHF.
Here in the SF Bay area, people have reported success using a CM4221 or CM4228 (both UHF-only bowties setups) to pick up KNTV-11, which broadcasts in VHF channel 12.
Perhaps if your local VHF station is also on 12, you can use a UHF antenna to receive it too.
Note that I don't use a 4228 to pick up KNTV-11, I actually find that they are on VHF to be a huge advantage. I use a Yagi to pick up KNTV-11 and use a VHF/UHF splitter reversed (in combiner mode) so that the yagi picks up KNTV-11 and my 4228 picks up the UHF signals. This is advantageous because KNTV-11's transmitter is in a different location than some of the others, and this lets me aim each antenna better.
If your channel is in VHF-Hi (7-13), you can use a much smaller yagi than you think. This is helped by the better signal propagation of VHF over UHF.