It helped..
Previously I had a piece of cable wire on the roof that I stripped the plastic off and made into a little loop like the antennas you used to see on the backs of little portable TV sets. The loop was about as big around as a peanut butter jar
It sort of worked. I get most of the digital channels here. I use a TV card in my home theater pc and I also have it go to my HDTV. On the TV I can select to watch TV straight from the antenna or from the PC. That's handy because it also has a satellite card in it too so I can use the pc to watch pretty much anything I want.
So anyway, I like to watch Street Court and Judge Joe Brown in the afternoons but the reception on those, KBTV-DT 40.1 was terrible. It would freeze up a lot and really mess up so much it was miserable. And I was missing some good stuff.
So I finally got off my backside this weekend and threw together this horror of horrors of a TV antenna. I saw lots of pictures of stuff you guys made so I found some junk and got to work. I used an old coat hanger, a strip of moulding, some chicken wire and a piece of old satellite wire and stapled it to the wood thing with a staple gun.
Then I jammed the stick in the end of an old satellite pole on the roof of the house and connected it up.
Yes, it's a joke, it looks horrible, laugh all you want but I can watch KBTV now without all the freezing, jerking, squeaking and other annoyances.
It's only temporary though, I suspect it will fall apart soon anyway. I guess I need to shop around for a REAL antenna. So far all I'm able to get is the digital channels, there are some of the other kind that I can not get. My folks get KPLC from Lake Charles (about 65 miles I think) but they have a BIG antenna up about 25 feet on a motor that can turn it around just right.
I really want to get KPLC because since Equity went under I lost Patty Duke & Mr. Ed. :river I think KPLC carries some of the shows that "this tv" aired on satellite last year. I really miss that channel.
So yeah, a new antenna is going to happen this year for sure.
But for now, I can watch Judge Joe Brown and Judge Mazz without all the freezing.
I know you'll LYAO at this but hey, it's the best I could do. And it sorta works.
Previously I had a piece of cable wire on the roof that I stripped the plastic off and made into a little loop like the antennas you used to see on the backs of little portable TV sets. The loop was about as big around as a peanut butter jar
It sort of worked. I get most of the digital channels here. I use a TV card in my home theater pc and I also have it go to my HDTV. On the TV I can select to watch TV straight from the antenna or from the PC. That's handy because it also has a satellite card in it too so I can use the pc to watch pretty much anything I want.
So anyway, I like to watch Street Court and Judge Joe Brown in the afternoons but the reception on those, KBTV-DT 40.1 was terrible. It would freeze up a lot and really mess up so much it was miserable. And I was missing some good stuff.
So I finally got off my backside this weekend and threw together this horror of horrors of a TV antenna. I saw lots of pictures of stuff you guys made so I found some junk and got to work. I used an old coat hanger, a strip of moulding, some chicken wire and a piece of old satellite wire and stapled it to the wood thing with a staple gun.
Then I jammed the stick in the end of an old satellite pole on the roof of the house and connected it up.
Yes, it's a joke, it looks horrible, laugh all you want but I can watch KBTV now without all the freezing, jerking, squeaking and other annoyances.
It's only temporary though, I suspect it will fall apart soon anyway. I guess I need to shop around for a REAL antenna. So far all I'm able to get is the digital channels, there are some of the other kind that I can not get. My folks get KPLC from Lake Charles (about 65 miles I think) but they have a BIG antenna up about 25 feet on a motor that can turn it around just right.
I really want to get KPLC because since Equity went under I lost Patty Duke & Mr. Ed. :river I think KPLC carries some of the shows that "this tv" aired on satellite last year. I really miss that channel.
So yeah, a new antenna is going to happen this year for sure.
But for now, I can watch Judge Joe Brown and Judge Mazz without all the freezing.
I know you'll LYAO at this but hey, it's the best I could do. And it sorta works.
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