Broadcast TV - more channels?

MacFromOK · Mar 27, 2020

Man I dunno what the deal is, but I just re-scanned our channels (we've gotten a total of 7 for years) and got 17 channels!

Has something passed that allowed stations to turn up the power, or am I getting "skip" while the clouds are just right?

Color me confused...
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ignerntbend · Mar 27, 2020

Atmospheric conditions may cause you to detect weak signals that you’ll never actually receive. Even if they came in they’d more of the same.

ignerntbend · Mar 27, 2020

In the old days the weak signals came in fuzzy or snowy.
Now they don’t come in at all.

MacFromOK · Mar 27, 2020

Some of these are actually watchable (one with Sesame Street, of course), the others are diplaying, but most have missing pixels & patchy sound.

My antenna is a 16-18" loop made from 1/4"copper tubing, and its top is about a foot below the ceiling.

I bought one of those antennas that Dennis was touting a while back, but it doesn't seem to help much yet.

Maybe I should take it outta the box and hook it up...
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xseler · Mar 27, 2020

MacFromOK said:
Maybe I should take it outta the box and hook it up...

Probably the best line I'll see today!!

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ignerntbend · Mar 27, 2020

Hook it up! Especially if you’re having trouble getting the OETA channels.

MacFromOK · Mar 27, 2020

Well... that didn't last long. Nary a one works now.

But at least I now know there are probably 10 more or so channels accessable here with a better antenna (we're about 5 miles north of the TX/OK border).

Thanks guys.
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O4L · Mar 27, 2020

MacFromOK said:
Some of these are actually watchable (one with Sesame Street, of course), the others are diplaying, but most have missing pixels & patchy sound.

My antenna is a 16-18" loop made from 1/4"copper tubing, and its top is about a foot below the ceiling.

I bought one of those antennas that Dennis was touting a while back, but it doesn't seem to help much yet.

Maybe I should take it outta the box and hook it up...

I use one of those flat indoor antennas about the size of a sheet of paper. I get local news stations along with a bunch of crap channels but don't get OETA.

Someone from work offered me their antenna they no longer use that is in their attic.

Whenever they get around to taking it down I plan on mounting it on a pole outside because I don't have an attic. Hopefully that will make a big difference in what I can pick up.

MacFromOK · Mar 27, 2020

I don't want an outdoor antenna any more. We're on a high spot here, and the last CB antenna I had (just above the roof peak) got struck by lightning and destroyed a stereo, a lamp, and started a fire in the living room floor.

I had disconnected the CB and the coax was lying in the floor. There's still a section of melted coax in the wall.
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Preacherman · Mar 27, 2020

The reception I receive from the antenna range from 0 to 28 channels.

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