Approximating your location at http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29 shows about 15 stations should come in on an outdoor antenna pointed just a little north of west.
I’d expect an indoor one to get most of those if it were near a west facing window.
for about $70 you could replace the old dish and re-use their cable and get about 30 channels IMO..
by placing my antenna outside the house on a step stool, I got one of the missing major channels. I know it is not a TV setting or antenna fault. I recalled my neighbor talked about making something with hangers & so I called him & he sent this:
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I dumped cable because the price kept going up and they kept taking away channels. I got tired of paying to watch commercials. Even the History Channel went to programming like ‘Axe Men’ and “Swamp People”. What does that have to do with History?
Hey Dolly, about the DTV anternna, here is what I built from a video I found on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw
The guy is right. It outperforms the cheapo antenna I bought. When the gov’t changed over from analog to digital, they were offering coupons for a analog to DTV converter. I got two because my TV sets are old and not DTV capable. Your TV if newer, probably is DTV capable so you won’t need a converter box. I get a bunch of channels, more with my homemade antenna than with the storebought. I get:
3, 3-1, which is 24/7 weather radar, 5, 8, 8-2 which is my favorite: classic TV shows and movies; 19, 19-2 which is 24/7 weather, 25, 25-1,25-2,25-3, 25-4 which are all PBS. 43, 43-2 which is movies and older TV shows and 55 which is classic shows and 55-2 which is a religous channel. There are a bunch of Spanish-speaking channels and religous channels that I have blocked. Here is another website that I used to see which channels I should get just by plugging in my zip code:
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx