Re: [CGUYS] OT: Comcast Cable & HD

2009-04-24 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Hooking up the conversion box was a snap once the antenna was built. >We are getting many channels through the HD box. Sadly, though, WETA >is not one of them. It is interesting to see what's coming over the >air, though. This may inspire us to investigate a bit more -- & maybe >even dump

Re: [CGUYS] OT: Comcast Cable & HD

2009-04-23 Thread chrper...@aol.com
My thanks to Richard for his wonderful recommendation. We actually had everything necessary to build the antenna readily on-hand. Had it built in about 15 minutes. Very clear instructions on YouTube, and pretty easy to do. Hooking up the conversion box was a snap once the antenna was built.

Re: [CGUYS] OT: Comcast Cable & HD

2009-04-23 Thread Richard P.
Without more information, I doubt you'll be able to get WETA from your location without an outdoor antenna. See http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx for more info on what signals are available and what type antenna you'll need. If you want to try something cheap, you can build this antenna ou

[CGUYS] OT: Comcast Cable & HD

2009-04-23 Thread chrper...@aol.com
Hi All! Thanks to wonderful Comcast Cable here in Baltimore County, MD, we have now lost the ability to watch WETA, Channel 26, on any of our TV's. We hook directly to cable, not using their 'box,' which means we are now losing HD signals as quickly as Comcast can drop them. This forces us