The antenna arrangement I was using had one major flaw: since the various UHF TV stations are in a 90 degree arc and my old UHF antenna was highly directional, pointing the antenna at one group of stations would cause reception problems with the others.

I missed the past three Fox Sundays, and had to throw away nearly a week's worth of mid-week ( Read more... )

On Sunday evenings, our local RTV affiliate shows old episodes of the 80's TV program That's Incredible!  It was an early reality television show featuring people performing stunts and stories of unusual or miraculous events.  It was hosted by John Davidson, Fran Tarkenton and Cathy Lee Crosby.

On this particular episode, they show a child named ( Read more... )

Assorted pics I either forgot to upload or uploaded to Twitpic but not here.


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A rather surprising guest star on today's episode of Hawaii Five-0, originally broadcast in 1975, titled "Computer Killer".

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A shifty-looking "computer consultant" watches a gentleman meeting up with an attorney and heading into court.  He notes the man's license plate, then gets back in his car and makes a call on his car ( Read more... )

On today's episode of Emergency!, the crew is watching an episode of Adam-12 on TV ( Read more... )

It's weird when you watch a TV program and see someone who would later star in another related series.  So far on Adam-12 I've seen Randolph Mantooth, Bobby Troup, Ron Pinkard, Tim Donnelly, Marco Lopez and Art Balinger, all of whom would later star in another Mark VII series, Emergency!, as Paramedic John Gage, Dr. Joe Early, Dr. Mike Morton, ( Read more... )

Emergency! tonight had a small child stuck in a hole on a construction site.

At the exact same time, the secondary tuner was recording the episode of the Simpsons where Bart fools everyone into thinking a small child is stuck in a well.

Weird.

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I've spent hundreds of dollars to improve the TV signals we receive here.  Two antennas, 2 ground rods, 2 amplifiers, hundreds of feet of ground wires, ground blocks and assorted accessories.

While it helped somewhat, there were still stations that just would not come in.  It didn't make any sense that I had a dedicated VHF antenna, aimed directly ( Read more... )