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HDTV indoor Antenna ANT1500 - $32 free shipping

If you need an antenna, don't buy one. BUILD ONE!

I went through a few antennas at radioshack, and none of them worked well. Then I found that with a piece of wood, a few coat hangers, screws and washers, and a transformer for coaxial connection to the antenna, you can build a DAMN good antenna. It only costs about $5 for the connector. Everything else you'll probably have lying around. I got a piece of wood at Home Depot for $3 or so. I'm never going back there though...I waited in checkout for 20 minutes for them to price the wood.

Aiming the antenna can be an issue, but that'd be an issue with any HDTV antenna.

Here are some pics:

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3058/img1679ph4.jpg

http://img184.imageshack.us/im.../158/img1680aq7zg9.jpg

I don't mean to dump on the deal though!!! It seems like a nice deal.

Just offering a suggestion
 
Originally posted by: grandeCC

If needed, combine it with with the signal booster ($30) to get best reception.


Fixed link - signal booster - watch it for $20 on sale
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I have this signal booster, and its great for cable. For OTA, not so much for an indoor antenna from my experience. I bought a DB2 and pole+tripod from Radio Shack and use it outside. Towers are 30-40 miles away, but I pick up everything now (30 channels). Same antenna indoors did may 3.
 
I just bought an Electroline 2100 rf amplifier on ebay for $15 plus $10 shipping.
I hope this will work well with my silver sensor. I can't get any digital channels without an amp, so hopefully this will work.
I have used the Electroline amp before, and it works very well (15dB gain).
 
has anyone tried any of these out with attic installs? Id lie to see what I could get away with going for the attic route before dealing with my HOA over a roof antenna.
 
Not all DTV broadcasters are using a UHF frequency.


There's no such thing as an "HDTV" antenna. Any antenna capable of
receiving a TV signal, be it digital or analog, VHF or UHF, will work.


Yes, some stations currently using UHF for their digital signal will be
reverting back to their old analog frequency for their longterm digital broadcasts.

It depends on whether you have good UHF *and* VHF
receiving capability, ie. antenna.

If you don't have a good VHF receiving antenna,
you could be disappointed with post-Feb '09 results.

Don't buy a VHS or UHF ONLY Antenna unless your certain that your provider is going to switch or stay with a certain frequency. Yes, confusing and kinda stupid but obviously UHF will cover more area but cost more to do it. I heard the majority were moving to UHF but who knows every time I check I get mixed reviews. It may be worth it to buy a dual band antenna from solid signal.

I'll probably buy a cheap indoor antenna since my local crappy stations abc, nbc, cbs and fox are only 2 miles away and the only station I'm really interested in would be PBS @ 18 miles on UHF signal ... I got one of these.

http://www.solidsignal.com/pro...42XG&xzoom=Large#xview

Good Luck!
 
Avoid that Terk. It's pretty bad and even though it looks almost exactly like the reference HDTV antenna (the Zenith ZHDTV1), it's performance is really below it. I bought it and tried it out when I was installing antennas and it was by far the worst performing of the bunch.
 
Originally posted by: ericlp
Not all DTV broadcasters are using a UHF frequency.


There's no such thing as an "HDTV" antenna. Any antenna capable of
receiving a TV signal, be it digital or analog, VHF or UHF, will work.


Yes, some stations currently using UHF for their digital signal will be
reverting back to their old analog frequency for their longterm digital broadcasts.

It depends on whether you have good UHF *and* VHF
receiving capability, ie. antenna.

If you don't have a good VHF receiving antenna,
you could be disappointed with post-Feb '09 results.
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It was my understanding that while, originally, some stations had broadcasted digital on VHF originally, they were no longer being allowed to since, in the digital world, it doesn't matter what frequency you broadcast on.
 
Originally posted by: grandeCC
Originally posted by: quadomatic
If you need an antenna, don't buy one. BUILD ONE!


Here are some pics:

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3058/img1679ph4.jpg

http://img184.imageshack.us/im.../158/img1680aq7zg9.jpg

I don't mean to dump on the deal though!!! It seems like a nice deal.

Just offering a suggestion
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Great! If you can convince the other half to put it in the living room! 🙂
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Just throw it behind your TV. You can find a video on how to build this on youtube.
 
Originally posted by: bearxor
Originally posted by: ericlp
Not all DTV broadcasters are using a UHF frequency.


There's no such thing as an "HDTV" antenna. Any antenna capable of
receiving a TV signal, be it digital or analog, VHF or UHF, will work.


Yes, some stations currently using UHF for their digital signal will be
reverting back to their old analog frequency for their longterm digital broadcasts.

It depends on whether you have good UHF *and* VHF
receiving capability, ie. antenna.

If you don't have a good VHF receiving antenna,
you could be disappointed with post-Feb '09 results.
Click to expand...

It was my understanding that while, originally, some stations had broadcasted digital on VHF originally, they were no longer being allowed to since, in the digital world, it doesn't matter what frequency you broadcast on.
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Not so. In fact, as stated above many people that have OTA setups now will have some of them no longer working after Feb 17. PBS in the NY metro area explains on their website that you need a dual band antenna. They will be all VHS after Feb 17:

http://www.thirteen.org/about/digital

John
 
Originally posted by: DarkTXKnight
has anyone tried any of these out with attic installs? Id lie to see what I could get away with going for the attic route before dealing with my HOA over a roof antenna.
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We have a big old UHF/VHF antenna installed in the attic of our 2 story, probably 5' by 3' in size. We'd never used it since moving in, until we finally upgraded to HD TVs. I figured it couldn't hurt to try and sure enough, it gives great reception for the D-OTA channels.
 
Originally posted by: ericlp
Not all DTV broadcasters are using a UHF frequency.


There's no such thing as an "HDTV" antenna. Any antenna capable of
receiving a TV signal, be it digital or analog, VHF or UHF, will work.


Yes, some stations currently using UHF for their digital signal will be
reverting back to their old analog frequency for their longterm digital broadcasts.

It depends on whether you have good UHF *and* VHF
receiving capability, ie. antenna.

If you don't have a good VHF receiving antenna,
you could be disappointed with post-Feb '09 results.

Don't buy a VHS or UHF ONLY Antenna unless your certain that your provider is going to switch or stay with a certain frequency. Yes, confusing and kinda stupid but obviously UHF will cover more area but cost more to do it. I heard the majority were moving to UHF but who knows every time I check I get mixed reviews. It may be worth it to buy a dual band antenna from solid signal.

I'll probably buy a cheap indoor antenna since my local crappy stations abc, nbc, cbs and fox are only 2 miles away and the only station I'm really interested in would be PBS @ 18 miles on UHF signal ... I got one of these.

http://www.solidsignal.com/pro...42XG&xzoom=Large#xview

Good Luck!
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ingore this post. :/ don't post much and am not familiar with the forum
 
Originally posted by: ericlp
Not all DTV broadcasters are using a UHF frequency.


There's no such thing as an "HDTV" antenna. Any antenna capable of
receiving a TV signal, be it digital or analog, VHF or UHF, will work.


Yes, some stations currently using UHF for their digital signal will be
reverting back to their old analog frequency for their longterm digital broadcasts.

It depends on whether you have good UHF *and* VHF
receiving capability, ie. antenna.

If you don't have a good VHF receiving antenna,
you could be disappointed with post-Feb '09 results.

Don't buy a VHS or UHF ONLY Antenna unless your certain that your provider is going to switch or stay with a certain frequency. Yes, confusing and kinda stupid but obviously UHF will cover more area but cost more to do it. I heard the majority were moving to UHF but who knows every time I check I get mixed reviews. It may be worth it to buy a dual band antenna from solid signal.

I'll probably buy a cheap indoor antenna since my local crappy stations abc, nbc, cbs and fox are only 2 miles away and the only station I'm really interested in would be PBS @ 18 miles on UHF signal ... I got one of these.

http://www.solidsignal.com/pro...42XG&xzoom=Large#xview

Good Luck!
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If you are only looking for one channel then why not make an antenna for that frequency.

234/frequ = length in inches. for 1/4 wave. For 1/2 wave 468/frequ = length in inches.

cheers
 
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