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LynnWM158 01-21-2019 10:15 AM
TV antennas
 
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Originally Posted by biker1 (Post 1595147)
I believe I have a DB4e mounted in the attic. I pull in about 50 channels from Orlando.
Who installed your antenna? I need to get rid of a couple of my cable boxes connected with tv's that get very little use.

Thanks for your help

Tom Grooms 01-21-2019 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by LynnWM158 (Post 1617968)
Who installed your antenna? I need to get rid of a couple of my cable boxes connected with tv's that get very little use.



Thanks for your help
Hi Lynn, Xfinity and Spectrum both have Streaming apps that you can use for free with your paid subscription service. As an example, I use XFinity and I have 6 TVs in my home. I only have two cable boxes. The rest use the Xfinity stream beta app on Roku. I can watch live TV, recorded programs, on demand, just like I had a cable box except they don't cost me $10 per month per TV. The Xfinity stream beta app is only available on Roku and a few new Sony Android TVs.

Misbehavin22 01-21-2019 11:09 AM
Antenna was worthless for me.
 
We just moved into Buttonwood and I purchased a G.E. power amplified, HD antenna in an attempt to "cut the cable." I planned on the antenna, advertising a 50 mile radius of reception, and Roku to get me everything needed. After multiple channel scans, the antenna proved worthless. I called G.E. for help. They checked their tower locator and told me there were no towers within those 50 miles. I returned the antenna. A larger, attic or roof mounted antenna may be somewhat better but it's not worth my time or effort. Roku is working great!

HiHoSteveO 01-21-2019 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by kja966 (Post 1617913)
Here is another option for pointing your antennas especially if you are in the northern villages. Ocala has three translators or re-transmission towers. All three are easily receivable if you point the antenna toward Ocala. They are only 20-30 miles away. Fox 35 from Orlando transmits on channel 51. The programming is almost the same. WESH and WKMG (NBC and CBS) have translator towers which are received with no problem. For ABC the Gainsville station on 20.1 comes in fine as well as their PBS station. Orlando is 60 miles away from me and this made it easy. I don't get the religious or Spanish channels but not interested. Give this option a try.
Tom Grooms, as kja966 wrote in this post #23,
Have you had the same experience when doing attic installations south of 466A?

I wonder if 2 of the 4 antennas of my Db8e pointed towards Ocala/Gainesville would be helpful?
(2 pointed to Orlando, 2 pointed to Ocala/Gainsville)

LOMDtrainman 01-21-2019 11:41 AM
TABLO DVR for over the air recording they make a 4 tuner model so you can ecord 4 programs at same time

LOMDtrainman 01-21-2019 11:42 AM
If your attic has Aluminum Reflective insulation your antenna may not work as well

Geri J. 01-21-2019 02:27 PM
I would think outside antennas wouldn't be allowed.

biker1 01-21-2019 02:31 PM
Tom Grooms at TheVillagesAV.com installed my antenna. It works great but we have recently started streaming YouTubeTV, because it offers several stations that aren't available via an antenna, so the antenna doesn't get much use anymore.

Quote:
Originally Posted by LynnWM158 (Post 1617968)
Who installed your antenna? I need to get rid of a couple of my cable boxes connected with tv's that get very little use.

Thanks for your help

Daisy 01-21-2019 04:06 PM
Correction
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by biker1 (Post 1617965)
BTW, there is really no longer the concept of "good reception". You either get the station or you don't. If you get the station then the reception is perfect since it is digitally encoded.
Not quite true. I get quite severe 'pixilation' if that's the word on weaker stations.

biker1 01-21-2019 04:50 PM
There is no need to nitpick. If you are getting pixilation you aren't pulling in the station and it is not watchable. It is not like the old "analog" days when you could be watching a station just fine but it could be of generally poor quality.

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Originally Posted by Daisy (Post 1618102)
Not quite true. I get quite severe 'pixilation' if that's the word on weaker stations.

villagetinker 01-21-2019 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Geri J. (Post 1618077)
I would think outside antennas wouldn't be allowed.
FCC rules override any and all HOA or equal (in our case covenants), outside antennas are allowed. i have personally called Community standards about this.

shighsmi 01-21-2019 10:01 PM
Antennae
 
We are in Hadley and get 70 channels . Tom from The Villages AV installed the digital antennae in our attic.

kcrazorbackfan 01-21-2019 10:21 PM
Everyone wanting to put up an outside antenna, remember we live in the lightning capital of the US.

JimJohnson 01-22-2019 05:42 AM
How about a HAM Radio antenna. An old hobbie I used to do that I now have time for.

biker1 01-22-2019 07:42 AM
A properly installed outside antenna will be grounded.

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Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan (Post 1618147)
Everyone wanting to put up an outside antenna, remember we live in the lightning capital of the US.


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