Antenna update
The antenna installation went quite well. It was quite easy to drive in six screws total and eight nuts/bolts total. The system includes a built in vertical angle adjustment and a built in horizontal angle adjustment, up to around 60 degrees, so you get a pretty good breadth of angles as long as you put it pretty much where it should be. Just make sure you're not doing anything as simple as, y'know, pointing your antenna at a tree. AntennaWeb is the place to go for what angles you should be putting your antenna up at.
Once the installation was complete, the cable runs from the antenna to the tv, more or less. There is an inline AC adapter, which is super awesome, because it means to power the antenna, I can plug it in at the point of the TV, which saves having to string an AC adapter wire AND the coax. It's just a nice feature.
Anyway, results.
I am pulling in just 6 analog stations right now, but I know stations are phasing them out anyway, so that doesn't really surprise me.
11 HD channels and 12 SD channels were pulled in digitally. Not quite as many as basic cable, but I don't have to pay a monthly fee. ROI in 5 months. I also pulled in four channels that were dead, so the frequencies are reserved and the structure is being broadcast, but actual programming is not. I don't know if those will be SD or HD.
Please, feel free to ask me any questions if you would like.
Once the installation was complete, the cable runs from the antenna to the tv, more or less. There is an inline AC adapter, which is super awesome, because it means to power the antenna, I can plug it in at the point of the TV, which saves having to string an AC adapter wire AND the coax. It's just a nice feature.
Anyway, results.
I am pulling in just 6 analog stations right now, but I know stations are phasing them out anyway, so that doesn't really surprise me.
11 HD channels and 12 SD channels were pulled in digitally. Not quite as many as basic cable, but I don't have to pay a monthly fee. ROI in 5 months. I also pulled in four channels that were dead, so the frequencies are reserved and the structure is being broadcast, but actual programming is not. I don't know if those will be SD or HD.
Please, feel free to ask me any questions if you would like.