Antenna killing Antenna?

[Roert42]

Back when I lived in an apartment I had my tv In front of a big sounding window with the digital antenna setting behind the tv.

I got almost 40 channels.

I would come home and watch the Russian news then switch over to MeTv and watch reruns of MASH and Hogan’s Heros.


I’ve been able to get any good channels anywhere else I’ve lived so gave up on the set top antenna.
I’d be curious to see what I could get with one of this big roof mounted antenna.

 

[Josh B]

Actually my antenna is the best one they had at Walmart about 4 years ago. It has a long cable to put it up high and it's just under an 18 ft roof. It worked great until about 2 years ago, when one of the network stations just went out completely, there went 2 or 3 stations. Then about a year ago another network station went out slowly at first and then poof. A couple more stations gone.

I don't care much about what's on the thing besides the news and weather, mostly the weather, and I could almost live without it until even the radar images I got online went poof.

I still got international news on PBS with DW Berlin, BBC and DW Paris, plus NHK Tokyo, all now gone poof!

The first network station went off I tried contacting them but they weren't worth talking to

With losing all that's lost I'm just almost certain now it must be local interference with the signals, even tho one comes from the East, one from the NW, and PBS from almost N

If it's local it would almost have to be very close, and I know at least one is about 2-3 miles, and in the country that isn't very far

No I don;t want a $75 cable bill :/

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I think its as other have described, the stations no longer have to transmit OTA (over the air) analog signals and have switched to digital. I'm not sure what options you have.

 

[Josh B]

What happen to the bit about cable required to carry local stations if they did local broadcast ?

 

[Josh B]

I'll try and write PBS in OKC and see if they are scaling back signals

 

[sgtsandman]

We just dumped cable...

Too little for too much.

We have Netflix... Sling... and Amazon Prime. Honestly... I'd like to get rid of a couple of those too.

We got glass fiber internet from a company for $50 a month with about the same speed Comcast provides. Got a couple of Roku devices for the tv watching and the digital antenna is we want any broadcast stations. I’m not sure what the girlfriend pays for what we have in channel subscriptions but I’m sure it’s a heck of a lot less that what we were paying Comcast/Xfiniti.

 

[sgtsandman]

What happen to the bit about cable required to carry local stations if they did local broadcast ?

As far as I know, they still have to.

 

[Josh B]

I got a number for the PBS station I'll talk to them about maybe when I get back tomorrow and see if I can find any reasonable explanation.
I also have a better TV I just need to put a couple new capacitors in it. If that brings it back on I'll have the better TV again, if not at least there I might guess it's not a TV thing

 

[BroncLander]

We just dumped cable...

Too little for too much.

We have Netflix... Sling... and Amazon Prime. Honestly... I'd like to get rid of a couple of those too.

I have Amazon Prime because I like free shipping. The streaming service is just kinda meh. Disney because I like the Star Wars stuff. My kid has Paramount and Netflix. So we share passwords

 

[rumblecloud]

I know I'm late to the party but we cut the cable a month or so ago. In our area there was very little to choose from - no hardwire, only satellite - that meant HughesNet. So we, like many others, started streaming. We use Chromecast. Pay for NetFlix and Prime (since we use Amazon for the free shipping). We also use the free apps Pluto and Tubi. Each have there own pluses and minuses. We really like it - no more shopping channels, Whoopee!

Waiting for Verizon to get to our neighborhood to get cost down by prolly a half in the $50 range.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

We just dumped cable...

Too little for too much.

We have Netflix... Sling... and Amazon Prime. Honestly... I'd like to get rid of a couple of those too.

Im thinking of doing the same

278/mo for cable and internet is bullshit

 

[superj]

holy cow!!!! 278! i would have not even signed up. our cable is just for hte internet, no tv and i don't like that its 70 a month.

the good ol days of getting the free blue light special disk at k-mart and doing the backdoor loading so it never timed out are over, never to return. no hearing your router trying to connect while windows loads across the bottom of hte screen, ha ha ha

 

[rusty ol ranger]

holy cow!!!! 278! i would have not even signed up. our cable is just for hte internet, no tv and i don't like that its 70 a month.

the good ol days of getting the free blue light special disk at k-mart and doing the backdoor loading so it never timed out are over, never to return. no hearing your router trying to connect while windows loads across the bottom of hte screen, ha ha ha

It was 200 when i signed up.

Typical comcast BS.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I have two TVs so far. One is a monster 32” flatscreen (from back when flatscreen means the front glass is flat and not curved). Remote died (very annoying), but it still works great because 99% of the time it just collects dust. My other is like a 40” Dell LCD monitor/tv. Unfortunately no remote, but it has a Roku and my computers hooked to it. Still spends most of its time collecting dust but it cost me like $20 to get. I really just don’t watch much tv, usually working on something, online, or have my nose in a book. So far I’ve smashed through over 56 novels this year, and that’s mostly just reading an hour or two a day.

 

[sgtsandman]

I know I'm late to the party but we cut the cable a month or so ago. In our area there was very little to choose from - no hardwire, only satellite - that meant HughesNet. So we, like many others, started streaming. We use Chromecast. Pay for NetFlix and Prime (since we use Amazon for the free shipping). We also use the free apps Pluto and Tubi. Each have there own pluses and minuses. We really like it - no more shopping channels, Whoopee!

Waiting for Verizon to get to our neighborhood to get cost down by prolly a half in the $50 range.

We have both Verizon and Comcast/Xfiniti. They must have some sort of hand shake deal. Prices haven't gone down with either of them.