I'm using the ancient omnidirectional antenna my father put up in the
antic 40 years ago or more for FM. Works just fine for analog (lots
of snow, but good audio signal), but I'll have to put on a new
antenna this spring for digital. Fortunately we have most of the
transmitters off to the southeast, only one station is to the north
and we can't get that all the time now, even analog.
I suppose I'll have to get a rotator for that one.
Vastly cheaper than cable, and since you can only get ONE PBS station
on cable no matter where you are or how many are out there, I'm
sticking with broadcast in any case.
Peter
On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Jim Cathey wrote:
How big is your antenna/rotor?
Not very. Same old rabbit ears/piece of wire on the floor/
strange circular ring on top of the house.
Last I knew, you could mail order a sizable deep fringe antenna
for under $200.
More money to soak out of the consumer for the 'upgrade'!
If all the transmitters are in the same direction from you, you
wouldn't even need the rotor.
Nope, they're in two different directions. One antenna we
can see (and that's the one we're getting signal from), the
others are all behind a rather large hill.
I ran two pieces of RG6 up to the chimney during the new construction.
The plan is for two antennae and to mix them down in the equipment
room and then route the result (whether on coax or Ethernet) to
wherever the TV is going to end up. Someday.
SO much better than just taking the TV out of the box and
plugging it in. Yes-siree!
-- Jim
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