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To: ConservativeMind

I’d sure like to know about your antenna setup. I have been trying to figure out how my Mom can watch TV in a rural area without the insane cable fees.


20 posted on 07/14/2019 10:37:56 AM PDT by golux
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To: golux
We use this currently as an indoor antenna, and we are 55 miles from almost all transmitters it is directly facing.

On Amazon:

Free Signal TV Marathon Indoor Outdoor Antenna, Whole House 100 Mile Long Range High Performance Antenna for Digital HDTV
https://www.amazon.com/Marathon-Outdoor-Antenna-Performance-Digital/dp/B00O2M7N48

It is on the second floor standing on the floor, near a window, but houses block us. I need to get it on the roof for even better reception.

It does need a power outlet, but I’ve hijacked an antenna jack in the wall for a television to instead route the antenna signal down to our 4K television (I had to switch and connect two cables in our antenna junction box).

Antenna Web says we are too far out to get most of the signals, even if it was on a 30 foot high base, and outside!

I expect we’d get closer to 90+ stations, if everything was perfect, again, from 55+ miles away.

The antenna is self enclosed and is a little over two feet tall and one foot wide, minus the screw-in antenna add-on. I initially had problems with getting any signal from it, but then realized I had the amplifier inserted into the cabling the wrong way. I was ready to return it until I gave it one last rethink. I’m glad I did!

23 posted on 07/14/2019 11:11:26 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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