Anyone messing with this in a rural area? I'm 30 miles out with trees, and having issues.
OTA TV
- Thread starter fleming442
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I'm not rural, I'm in NYC about 20 miles from the transmitters. . I have almost 100 channels and yet I regularly lose some to atmospheric conditions. Often I have to re-scan the whole mess to get everything back in order. Still, for free I can't complain.
I'm 20-ish miles out from the local stations but on a hill top and pick-up stations from over 60 miles away. No special antennas or anything. Just rabbit ears. New house has a metal roof so I'm putting up an outdoor, rooftop antenna otherwise I'd be screwed
You can't get anything over the air around here. Bonnewagon can attest to that me being kind of in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the mountains. Only way to get anything here is to have cable or satellite.
I've got all top notch shizznit, and can't get good like I want to be. I can pull in about 20 but they're duplicates. I've tried them all, and there's very little difference between the 3 different types of antenna. I don't like heights, and playing out over the peak of the roof sucks!
Currently I have all Channel Master stuff. They told me to talk to the stations. Huge help, not.
CM-4228 cookie sheet/bowtie 8 bay
RCA YAGI
CM-7777 preamp
CM Mini 8 powered splitter
By all statistics, it should work. I don't get it.
Currently I have all Channel Master stuff. They told me to talk to the stations. Huge help, not.
CM-4228 cookie sheet/bowtie 8 bay
RCA YAGI
CM-7777 preamp
CM Mini 8 powered splitter
By all statistics, it should work. I don't get it.
I'm 20 miles as the crow flies from the broadcast towers ,in a creek bottom at the bottom of a valley surrounded by trees on top of the hills. Roof ridge is about 8 feet lower than the hill directly behind it, which is even lower than the surrounding terrain.
We got about 4 stations with an antenna on an 18 foot pole next to the house. Changed to one of the cheap Amazon rotary antennas with booster, get all the OKC stations now.
I can remember a time when every K-mart, etc had those big aluminum tube antennas in the stores.
This little "Vansky" antenna works pretty well...despite being mostly flimsy plastic. Came with a 1 year warranty, I bought the additional for a couple bucks more.
I refuse to pay the ludicrous rates for dish, and apparently the cable providers will continue spending millions to advertise their services to urban customers, but don't want to spend on infrastructure in unserved rural markets. I keep hoping our electric co-op will begin offering fiber internet, then we'll be done with TV and our slow OTA internet
We got about 4 stations with an antenna on an 18 foot pole next to the house. Changed to one of the cheap Amazon rotary antennas with booster, get all the OKC stations now.
I can remember a time when every K-mart, etc had those big aluminum tube antennas in the stores.
This little "Vansky" antenna works pretty well...despite being mostly flimsy plastic. Came with a 1 year warranty, I bought the additional for a couple bucks more.
I refuse to pay the ludicrous rates for dish, and apparently the cable providers will continue spending millions to advertise their services to urban customers, but don't want to spend on infrastructure in unserved rural markets. I keep hoping our electric co-op will begin offering fiber internet, then we'll be done with TV and our slow OTA internet
That's a whole 'nother scene with wife- momma ain't happy! Then again, when was she ever happy? Hmmmmm...... 🤔
I remember as a kid when we would migrate to Masontown PA in the summer, 50's 60's. You needed a motorized rooftop antenna revolver that you could control from inside the house. KDKA in Pittsburgh came in great. Then we got maybe 5 or 6 others all around the compass. You just held the button down until you got the best picture. Now everyone down there has cable. What I use here is an electronic antenna that has 16 directions built in and a signal booster. It electronically locks on to the strongest signals and remembers them. I bought the TIVAX model digital converters specifically so I could use these antennas. My remote control has the antenna function built in. I mounted them inside my attic even though they are weather resistant. My beef is with tall apartment houses which are as bad as hills. Weather and electronic interference corrupt the signal especially in electrical storms. People who see my normally good quality reception cannot believe it is free OTA.
Resident RF Safety Weenie and Army Staff Officer here.
Do you have line of sight to the source emitter and is it directional or indiscriminate? If you know it's location and yours (duh) plot a line between the two. Now you'll want to chart that for elevation using some graph paper and see how much is in your way. Because if you live on the backside of a hill - you're fooked.
Obviously anything between the emitter and reciever that can cause interference will.
Do you have line of sight to the source emitter and is it directional or indiscriminate? If you know it's location and yours (duh) plot a line between the two. Now you'll want to chart that for elevation using some graph paper and see how much is in your way. Because if you live on the backside of a hill - you're fooked.
Obviously anything between the emitter and reciever that can cause interference will.
