Big 12 thread

Red_Alert said:
My digital antenna ($20 one time fee) gets FOX, NBC, CBS, and ABC, with better quality than streaming ESPN.
I also get about 18 other channels on it.
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Damn you!
 
Red_Alert said:
My digital antenna ($20 one time fee) gets FOX, NBC, CBS, and ABC, with better quality than streaming ESPN.
I also get about 18 other channels on it.
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My digital in the bedroom gets everything because it faces west, towards Manhattan and all the broadcast towers. The one in the living room faces east, and only gets about half of the same channels. They're only about 35-40 feet apart from each other, go figure. I've even tried switching them, no change.
 
Hu War Yu said:
My digital in the bedroom gets everything because it faces west, towards Manhattan and all the broadcast towers. The one in the living room faces east, and only gets about half of the same channels. They're only about 35-40 feet apart from each other, go figure. I've even tried switching them, no change.
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I have that issue because my place is about 45 miles from the towers in Omaha and I'm somewhat in a valley (hills between me and them). Dirt has metallic minerals in it and metallic minerals actually reflect RF energy.

I don't know how far you are from Manhattan, but walls also do a pretty good job of making already weak radiated frequencies even weaker.

1) Put your living room antenna in a west room.
2) Get a long piece of coax cable to reach between the rooms.
3) Put a barrel connector between the antenna coax and your newly fabricated piece of coax.
4) Run that new (long) piece of coax to your living room tv.

There's a 40' piece of coax on Amazon for $15.97.
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$5.99 for your barrel connector.
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You can likely get all that stuff fabricated locally as well, but $22 bucks and you're in business in your living room.
 
Red_Alert said:
I have that issue because my place is about 45 miles from the towers in Omaha and I'm somewhat in a valley (hills between me and them). Dirt has metallic minerals in it and metallic minerals actually reflect RF energy.

I don't know how far you are from Manhattan, but walls also do a pretty good job of making already weak radiated frequencies even weaker.

1) Put your living room antenna in a west room.
2) Get a long piece of coax cable to reach between the rooms.
3) Put a barrel connector between the antenna coax and your newly fabricated piece of coax.
4) Run that new (long) piece of coax to your living room tv.

There's a 40' piece of coax on Amazon for $15.97.
Amazon product ASIN B07DW65V9Y
$5.99 for your barrel connector.
Amazon product ASIN B0107LH932
You can likely get all that stuff fabricated locally as well, but $22 bucks and you're in business in your living room.
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Yeah, I figured its the two walls between the LR and the west exposure of the house, but I can still get some of the channels no problem. Don't really wanna drag a bunch of cable through the house, so I just live with it. Every so often I'll re-scan the channels to see if anything new shows up.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Yeah, I figured its the two walls between the LR and the west exposure of the house, but I can still get some of the channels no problem. Don't really wanna drag a bunch of cable through the house, so I just live with it. Every so often I'll re-scan the channels to see if anything new shows up.
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It's your house's way of telling you that it wants you to spend all day lying in bed.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Yeah, I figured its the two walls between the LR and the west exposure of the house, but I can still get some of the channels no problem. Don't really wanna drag a bunch of cable through the house, so I just live with it. Every so often I'll re-scan the channels to see if anything new shows up.
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I run mine along the top of the baseboard.
If I had carpet I'd run it along the walls under that.

I only have a medium speed internet package (limited data) and stream HULU. It's fiber internet and plenty fast, but for me to go to unlimited data is another $50 and I don't need it.

HULU carries my local channels, but I save data by using the digital antenna for the 22 channels on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX.

I 'hotspot' my phone for internet on my laptop because I'm already paying for hotspot data (internet) through my cell phone company.
 
Another way to do it would be to put your digital antenna in an upstairs room (or attic if you don't have rooms upstairs).

Attics don't typically have partitioning walls inside. Run the coax down through the ceiling to your living room tv.

The higher your antenna is, the better.
 
Red_Alert said:
Another way to do it would be to put your digital antenna in an upstairs room (or attic if you don't have rooms upstairs).

Attics don't typically have partitioning walls inside. Run the coax down through the ceiling to your living room tv.

The higher your antenna is, the better.
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I saw some more expensive units, that are more powerful, that said to mount in the attic.
 
Red_Alert said:
I have that issue because my place is about 45 miles from the towers in Omaha and I'm somewhat in a valley (hills between me and them). Dirt has metallic minerals in it and metallic minerals actually reflect RF energy.

I don't know how far you are from Manhattan, but walls also do a pretty good job of making already weak radiated frequencies even weaker.

1) Put your living room antenna in a west room.
2) Get a long piece of coax cable to reach between the rooms.
3) Put a barrel connector between the antenna coax and your newly fabricated piece of coax.
4) Run that new (long) piece of coax to your living room tv.

There's a 40' piece of coax on Amazon for $15.97.
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$5.99 for your barrel connector.
View attachment 88808

You can likely get all that stuff fabricated locally as well, but $22 bucks and you're in business in your living room.
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directions unclear, got hand cut off by ceiling fan.
 
outofyourmind said:
I saw some more expensive units, that are more powerful, that said to mount in the attic.
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Hence aerials being mounted on rooftops back in the day.

Funny story.... When I bought this new acreage it still had an old aerial on the roof. My son (16 at the time) asked me "Dad, what is that for?" LOL

I then explained the analog to digital transition for broadcast TV in 2009 and that literally every house had one back in the day unless they had rabbit ears on top of the tv console that worked good enough.

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Wow just heard on sports radio that Sark has never won a Big 12 road game. @Thiefery @ELTEXAN
 
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