The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Posted on 01/28/2012 2:05:41 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
Due to an ongoing dispute between Time-Warner and my local NBC affiliate KRIS, NBC is not currently carried on my cable system. It's pretty likely this dispute won't be resolved before the Super Bowl next weekend, so I want to find out what model of antennas, I should buy in order to watch the Super Bowl next week. I bought a Terk amplified antenna prior to the Houston Texan's game in the first round, and it didn't work at all. The clerk at the return desk at Best Buy said that lots of people were returning that model.
Get one of those famous Australian CoTanger combined TV and car antennas.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
In 1967, Super Bowl I was blacked out in Los Angeles, so those determined to see the game were making makeshift “Super Bowl antennas,” often out of coat hangers. The newsletter of a local rock station offered instructions as to how to make these.
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Really, you shouldn't “sigh” — because with all of the US stations gone from channels 2 thru 6, it's now a common occurrence every June, July and December for US DXer’s to receive lo-band stations via sporadic E-skip from Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Central America and even Venezuela.
Moreover, when the sunspot numbers peak in a few years, the F2 layer may allow Brazil, Africa and even Australia to show up!
For more info on the glories of TV DX, see:
I might give that a shot. The main issue we have is cars driving by and a couple of stations acting up.
For a simple one-shot deal like you are trying, any antenna mounted in a window facing the tower should work. Putting any indoor antenna near a window will dramatically improve reception. Outside the window is even better.
For a permanent alternative or supplement to cable or satellite, your best option is a roof mounted antenna.
In either case, unless you have a very long cable run, an amplifier should not be needed for a station that close to your house..
I use a Terk TV4 in Houston whenever my Dish goes out.
Are you sure that isn’t the late Shah of Iran in drag?
My suggestion at this late time I to find a nice sports bar & if $$ is an issue nurse a beer all night!
Here's a picture of my Gray-Hoverman antenna I built:
Mine picks up stations from 30 miles away (flat terrain). It does have a little trouble with one or two of the lower powered stations though, which always seems to happen at about the same time every evening. Since I removed my amplifier, it hardly ever happens any more.
Where do you find plans for that type antenna?
I'm currently recovering from foot surgery and have to use crutches to prevent breaking the titanium screws in my toe. I don't think a sports bar would be a good environment to have to navigate on crutches. I have a BluRay player on one TV that I could use for streaming the game, and I'll check out some more antennas tomorrow to put on another TV. Hopefully I'll find an antenna that will work this week and will be ready to go for the Super Bowl.
Here is the model of the one I built:
Gray-Hoverman GH2n with NARODs for UHF/VHF-hi
He has other models as well. He is one of many others who experiment with different television antenna designs who hang out in this forum:
I made a 4 bay bowtie out of coathangers that works great, except it’s designed for UHF.(youtube design)
One of our local channels is VHF 11. The bowtie won’t receive it .
Your channel 6 is apparently actually VHF 13.
Try rabbit ears, possibly suspended from the ceiling. close them down to approx 12” each side.
One thing I did learn.
The broadcast picture is superior to the cable picture.
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