What television stations can I hope to receive?
Where do I point my Antenna?
An easy way to find out is to go to www.tvfool.com and enter your postal code. TVFOOL produces a radar-like chart showing all the closest stations and their directions. From the Central Ottawa area, all local stations broadcast from the Northwest (Camp Fortune) and Southwest (Manotick). Generally pointing a roof mounted antenna such as the CM4221 or CM4228 to one of these locations, or between the two, allows one to receive all Ottawa Digital stations. Some even report success aiming south towards the US stations and still receiving all the Ottawa stations. Some initial experimentation may be neccessary depending on your location.
The image below shows a typical map of available analog stations in the Ottawa area.
The next TVFOOL radar chart below shows the current Digital stations in Ottawa.
For comparison, the next graphics shows the station rich area of Toronto, where pretty well all networks are available over the air in free HDTV.