(ABC 6 NEWS)--- In Travis Stiller's line of work… "I put up antennas." Business is looking up.

And next month's DTV conversion gets the credit.

With analog, the quality of your antenna played a big part in the quality of your TV signal.

The antenna also plays a big part in DTV.

"You want a uhf-vhf antenna that has a 75 ohm pre-amp. What makes the difference between a good one and a bad one is how many elements you have," said Travis Stiller with G-and-S Antenna.

The elements are the fingers on the antenna, the long ones are for VHF reception, and the short ones are UHF.

And one common mistake people make is pointing the antenna.

"Catch the signal in the V, don't point it like an arrow in the direction because that would be actually backwards," said Wendell Nelson, the ABC 6 NEWS Chief Engineer.

And that's important, because digital is more directional and unforgiving than analog.

Your antenna doesn't have to be too much off the mark for your digital signal to go away

"The signal has to be strong, you have to check the meter in the TV or the converter box," said Nelson.

"When it starts pixilating or turns into a checker-board, you just move it a couple of degrees one way or another, it'll clear it right up," said Stiller.

Right now, the ABC 6 broadcast tower is west of Austin, near Myrtle.

But on June 12th, our new transmission tower will be up and running

"Southeast of grand meadow, so then everybody will basically want to switch the antenna pointing, especially people on the east side of our coverage area," said Nelson.

It should help improve signal coverage for most of our viewers, but those on the far western side of the coverage area may lose our signal, and will need to direct their antennas toward Minneapolis or Iowa stations to receive free over-the-air programming.

And with the death of analog three weeks away, Travis still knows it could be awhile before he sees another weekend off.

"Business is picking up. We're going to be out again Saturday programming TVs"