I might have screwed up. Last spring I told my in-laws that I wanted a 91xg. So they agreed to get one for Christmas for me. At the time WICU 12 in Erie was actually on 16. Someone told me they were also sending a signal on 52. I figured they were staying on UHF channels.
So the antenna shows up this week and my father-in-law sees that it is a UHF only antenna. I told him I'm not too concerned about that. But we have family that works at WICU and he was told to get the Clearstream 5. Which I read about and seems like a quality piece of equipment. But do I need to spend that kind of money?
According to TVFool I'm 15.1 miles away with virtually no obstructions. As for true North its listed at 222* ; There are only a couple of other VHF channels that I could get (like CIII, CHCH, CFPL, CFTO)
Also, He's quite concerned that I should get a rotor. I'm lets see how it works before trying a rotor, and even then I might consider stacking a second antenna instead.
According to TV the True North from my location, Erie channels are 222-226,
South Buffalo 61-68; Grand Island (which with analog I use to get pretty well) 39; And Canadian channels all through the 300's right up to 1*
I was under the impression that if I went for the Grand Island channels the Erie ones are almost directly behind me so I'd still get them fairly easily. And with some luck get some South Buffalo or Canadian. All without a rotor.
And I'd prefer getting FOX, CW etc. (it gives me extra options for local coverage of MLB and NFL)
Sorry if this was too much or too little information

Where does FM come in? You want radio? Or do you mean VHF (which does pick up FM too).

Some UHF antennas can pick up a degree of VHF, but generally not as well as an actual VHF antenna.

The problem is it's very hard to know what's required for your area without actually trying it. Generally you want to plan more for your long range stations, than the close ones. I went for the whole hog on my system - dual stacked UHF antennas, a VHF antenna, rotor, preamp, 44 foot tower. It works as well I could hope for my location in a valley.

I'm glad I got the rotor, as while I can get Toronto (south west) fairly well while pointed at Buffalo (south), Toronto is still more reliable when I'm pointed right at it, and doing that wipes out Buffalo. Plus in the future I'd want to get CKVR (north) and occasionally I can get Rochester (east south east).

Daniel
My Bad, I was really tired when I wrote this and meant VHF.
When it was analog I had no trouble getting that channel. My son and I built one of those youtube set top antennas and they get WICU in their room. Which is one reason I just didn't see a problem.
Which rotor did you go with? Would it be difficult to add later? Should I assume you also went with a long range VHF? I'm just not that sure if I need it to get a signal from 15 miles away if its worth the money to try and get a bigger antenna just to try and get the 4 or 5 Canadian channels I listed earlier.

Well, I got home from work to find out that my father-in-law installed it for me. But pointed it at the Erie channels that are 15 miles away. So until it gets turned around I have a deep fringe pointed in the wrong direction. And still not getting WICU.
It makes me think I'm getting a big VHF and might as well pick out a rotor.