Try The New Winegard Antenna Selector - Beta!

[winegard]

The new Winegard Antenna Selector - Beta is now live on the website. We would appreciate any feedback on our new selector.

View the antenna selector at: http://www.winegard.com/kbase/antenna_selector.php

Please post your comments here or email newsletter@winegard.com.

Thank you!

[re_nelson]

I gave it a try and found the UI to be simple but thorough. The underlying PHP and JavaScript code is clean and passes a validation I use for testing.

Here are my suggestions to enhance its functionality:

1). I'd recommend http://www.tvfool.com as the source for data instead of AntennaWeb which suffers from severely outdated station facility data. This would require a change to the color codes, of course.

2). I question the validity of this statement on the page: "NOTE: 98% of all television markets will have both UHF and VHF stations available.' Since the transition of 12 JUN 2009, a number of markets have seen total migration from V to U to become exclusively UHF such as Boston and Greensboro. A number were already totally UHF such as St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and quite a few other.

3). Adding a parameters (radio button perhaps?) to specify attic vs. outdoor mount would be useful in lieu of the "50%" message.

4). A selection widget to allow the user to specify a height other than the 30 ft. default would be nice.

Finally, the SQL query appears on the results page -- which I doubt you want to expose to the end user. Ti wit:

SELECT * from antenna_select where blue = 'X' && uhf = 'X' && hvhf = 'X' && lvhf != 'X' && mileage > 40 order by mileage asc

You might want to make the query ANSI compliant (in case you change the database backend) by change "&&" to "AND" as well as "!=" to "<>".