How to get the channels you want from you DTV Antenna

One thing that everyone who receives TV over the airwaves should start doing is working on setting up your digital TV experience before the digital switch!  I have heard of a great many people having trouble picking up channels.  It wasn't until today that I finally got Fox.  So, I'm positive that I get every channel now, but if you are having trouble picking up a digital channel that you can get the analog equivalent for, then I have some advice on what to do.

Here are some tips for the procedure I used:

1. Tune your TV to the analog channel you are looking to get.
• Just about every analog channel should have one or more digital channels.
• Some of these are completely new channels, but others are just formatted to fit different TVs better
  
2. Move your antenna around your home while watching the TV to find the spot with best reception
• This does not have to be the spot where you will eventually mount the antenna
  
• The exact spot and direction of where you hold the antenna may change reception quality
• Higher is not always better
• Near a window is not always better.
• I got the best reception in the middle of the room about 4.5 feet off the floor
  
3. Hold the antenna in place while your TV or converter box goes through the auto-program routine...
4. Check your list of channels, and take note of how many channels are available
• Depending on your device, you may not be able to watch digital channels that the Auto-Program function does not find, even if you know the channel is there.
  
• You may decide later that you cannot live without a channel you never had before, however it may take a long time to find a single spot that receives every single channel available.
  
5. If the channel doesn't come in, then repeat steps 2 - 4 until either it works or the TV defeats you... 
• it took me 3 days and 28 antenna designs to win...
• I spent about 1.5 hours repeating steps 2 - 4 with my fractal antenna... then I won!
• WARNING: The thrill of defeating the TV may make watching the TV seem less exciting.
  
6. Once you get all the digital channels you are looking for, tune your TV to the one that was hardest to get, and seek a spot to mount your antenna.
• If you spend as much time as I have at this, you can visualise the wavelength of a digital TV signal; which is really kind of cool and sad at the same time...
• while finalising your setup keep in mind that you want to make sure your TV works while you are sitting in your normal TV viewing spot... it doesn't do you much good if you can only watch TV while standing with your hand on the ceiling...

Other than that, I'm not sure what else there is to say.

Good luck, and embrase the Digital Revolution!