OTA Antenna For Philadelphia Area

[regrossman]

I just purchased an RCa D52W25 HDTV from Best Buy. It says it has an integrated HD Tuner so I assume I should be able to simply connect an antenna and get signal, correct? I've read FAQs but am new to the entire HDTV scene. I really want Fox, CBA and NBC in HD. Fox is a must for football games.

Here is what antennaweb.org gave me... I do live at an apartment. Is an Indoor possible? Fox falls in the Red, but I dont know what that means...

* yellow - uhf WPPX-DT 61.1 PAX WILMINGTON DE 238° 13.8 31
* yellow - uhf WPSG-DT 57.1 UPN PHILADELPHIA PA 238° 13.8 32
* yellow - uhf WPVI-DT 6.1 ABC PHILADELPHIA PA 239° 14.0 64
* yellow - uhf WPHL-DT 17.1 WB PHILADELPHIA PA 238° 13.8 54
* yellow - uhf WYBE-DT 34.1 PBS PHILADELPHIA PA 238° 13.8 34
* yellow - uhf WHYY-DT 12.1 PBS WILMINGTON DE 239° 13.9 55
* yellow - uhf KYW-DT 3.1 CBS PHILADELPHIA PA 239° 14.0 26
* green - uhf WCAU-DT 10.1 NBC PHILADELPHIA PA 239° 13.8 67
* green - uhf WNJT-DT 43.1 PBS TRENTON NJ 82° 20.4 43
* red - uhf WGTW-DT 27 IND BURLINGTON NJ Currently Not Available 238° 13.8 27
* red - uhf WTXF-DT 29.1 FOX PHILADELPHIA PA 243° 13.1 42
* violet - uhf WUVP-DT 65.1 UNI VINELAND NJ 172° 32.6 66
* violet - uhf WTVE-DT 51.1 IND READING PA 299° 36.0 25

[mjones73]

See if you can pick up a Silver Sensor at your local Sears and give it a shot, it is directional so aim it at 238° from your location.

[wgift46]

I live in Fort Washington and tried with out success to use an indoor antenna. I tried three different types anf they all failed. Once I but a UHF antenna out side I had and have excellent signals for every thing but channel 6 and 12 They tend to be flaky once in a while. The best thing I did was get cable with the high def package. There are a lot of negative comments about Comcast, but by and large they are more prersonal problems than real. I found that the quality of thier signal to be good or in to the better catagory. Watching football on FOX and better yet NASCAR in high def is something to behold. Once in a while there is a glitch, but life is too short to worry about those little glitches.

Bill