Radioshack: "UHF only after Feb 17..."

You're right to call BS on this Radio Shack guy. WLUK has filed the necessary paperwork with the FCC to move to 11 after the transition, so this guy is either trying to move a backstock of these UHF antennas or he is just stubbornly-mistaken.

As for the antenna you linked, I have it and use it myself. I don't have it on a roof but rather in a spare bedroom in my third-floor apartment in Appleton. It's the first non-amplified antenna I've found to work for me to pull in digital stations. I don't know if I can do VHF with it but I'm happy with it for current UHF digital channels.

I thought he was pushing backstock too until he went to check on what he had in stock and they didn't have any. I haven't had much luck with anything at the Oshkosh store. I usually wind up going to Plymouth (I work out there quite a bit).

I think I'll give that antenna a try despite the misleading sales pitch. Its only $30 and its pretty small so I don't have much to lose. Thanks for your quick reply.

It might be because all our local stations are UHF.

antennaweb.org has fox 11 as vhf but antennapoint.com has it as uhf. If antennapoint is right then the above is a plausible reason.

I'm fortunate in that were we live (Darboy area) that I can pick up all the other the air locals with a $10 set top antenna I picked up at Wal Mart. I do experience a few signal problems during heavy storms but not enough problems to go and spend more money on a better antenna.

Radio Shack mini-rant: Used to be one of my favorite stores, but I generally avoid them any more. Quality of much of what they sell has gone down while their prices have gone up. Already have a post on the board about cables, but Radio Shack is one of those retailers that I used to hit whenever I needed cheap AV cables and their cables aren't cheap anymore. Went in last year to try and buy a cheap transiter radio to take with me on a trip to a ball game and they had nothing for less than $40- claimed they didn't get much demand for radios (despite 'Radio' being in their name). I was also sold a headphone adapter that it turned out I didn't need (I blame that more on myself because I generally know better than to take anything retail sales people tell me as bing true- that adapter though was another example of something that used to run $1 or less at Radio Shack but was instead $6). Bought the radio because I was desperate (no one else in town carried cheap transiter radios either) and I couldn't pick up but a few AM station with it. Bought an $8 transiter radio off of Amazon later that picked up way more stations than the $40 Radio Shack model.

The guy at the Plymouth store gave me the same line. I was tempted to pull up the FCC license page from this site. At least this guy was a bit closer. He said a lot of stations are transmitting at a UHF channel but they retain their VHF channel assignment (2-13).

I am pretty certian Fox 11 is going back to 11 next year. As for if the antenna will work, try it now on analog 11. I believe signal needs to be about 75-80% good to give a good digital signal. If its pretty snowy, it probably wont work.

In Fond du Lac I have used the Radio Shack yagi for the last 5 years and was able to recieve 11 fine. After the change Friday I lost them, so what to do. Don't worry about it, or replace the antenna. If I do replace what antenna to use, the yagi was nice becuase of it's size.