Antenna TV (Not dish)

Cable company wanted thousands to run lines from the road to my house. Trees on my neighbor's property block satellites. The previous owner of my house mounted an antenna on the brick chimney. Get over 20 seattle channels regularly, plus a few more depending on weather and time of year. Take out the spanish, church, shopping, and 70's era channels, and I'm left with the CBS and FOX affiliates 100% of the time. Half the time I also get ABC and NBC.
Prime, Netflix and youtube are pretty nice.

 

Although you can probably go with an antennae for you local channels WeldrDave , it is always good to make sure first. Antennae in my area are only good for picking up radio stations. Although occasionally I think some can get a VT station (very fuzzy - and not local). I checked online and found that even those trying to sell product say my area won't pick up anything.

 

Well, at least you'll Sesame St and This Old House....

 

Just don't watch it for Mr Villa's tree felling tips.

 

Can you put it in a different name? When my brother was still here, he got cable internet. When he left I went and applied as a new customer; same address, and got the new customer deal.

 

What the hades?

 

I have two cheap antennas on a pole; one points north and one points south. I couldn't afford a more expensive antennas and the cheap ones with rotors tend to quit rotating. A simple switch box to switch antennas when needed. However, I can't watch television with adverts; a few minutes of show then 15 to 20 minutes of brain killing adverts and this repeats over and over. I got a cheap fire stick and opened it up to third party apps. I did put Pluto on it but it is the same brain killing situation on Pluto. I tried muting the sound but the visuals are so bad I have to shut my eyes; so then I don't know when the adverts end. How can people tolerate paying for television and still get bombarded with adverts? The solution I found is to find your content on the internet where the dang adverts have been removed. Here is a news aggregate site: Top News Show. Yes, you have to disable your advert blocker but you can go full screen and watch the show advert free. You can do this in your lounge on your big screen TV; just open the site in the browser and choose the show you want to watch.

 

Here I get decent over the air reception in the winter. In the summer a lot of the channels drop out. This is because almost all of the digital channels here; and maybe all now, are UHF and UHF gets attenuated when it passes through the leaves. Plus, it is hilly here and that doesn't help. However, I rarely turn on the telly because I can't stand the brain killing adverts.

 

I don't like beer but I will drink a Redd's Wicked Black Cherry with you. They promised me Mango but never produced any.

 

A cheap home made is to get some wire mesh for the reflector. In front do a series of bowties (just some straight wire bent). make sure the bowties are insulated from the reflector. I don't know the length of the bowties but can be found on the net; it depends on the frequency and usually that is UHF with digital tv. These are directional so you can make two, pointing in opposite directions and use a simple coax switch to switch between antennas.

 

You can get lists on the net of what the stations are broadcasting on. Here there were only a few VHF and they were out of range. So I opted for a UHF only antenna. VHF will go further than UHF; my reception drops off dramatically in the summer when the leaves gets on the trees.

 

I run amplifiers on mine; that helps tremendously.

 

Good job; happy TV watching.

 

Too funny!!!!!..........but my money is on no TV watching will happen!

 

You didn’t go there did you?

 

Not me....congress! Him/her he/she blah blah blah/ wah wah wah!