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Local OTA TV - Cuzz - 03-15-2018 Seems there is a new local over the air TV station, channel 12.3 real crime, full time. I think they're doing this just for TV. RE: Local OTA TV - chuck white - 03-15-2018 (03-15-2018, 08:18 PM)Cuzz Wrote: Seems there is a new local over the air TV station, channel 12.3 real crime, full time. I think they're doing this just for TV. What is channel 12.3 ? Is that VHF or UHF? RE: Local OTA TV - Cuzz - 03-15-2018 (03-15-2018, 08:23 PM)chuck white Wrote:(03-15-2018, 08:18 PM)Cuzz Wrote: Seems there is a new local over the air TV station, channel 12.3 real crime, full time. I think they're doing this just for TV. That should be VHF. RE: Local OTA TV - chuck white - 03-15-2018 (03-15-2018, 08:27 PM)Cuzz Wrote:My knob only turns to whole numbers. Is channel 12.3 between Channel 13 and channel 12?(03-15-2018, 08:23 PM)chuck white Wrote:(03-15-2018, 08:18 PM)Cuzz Wrote: Seems there is a new local over the air TV station, channel 12.3 real crime, full time. I think they're doing this just for TV. Maybe the fine tuning knob can get me there. RE: Local OTA TV - GPnative - 03-16-2018 No UHF OTA broadcasts in our area. RE: Local OTA TV - bbqboy - 03-16-2018 12.3 is terrible. 26.3 is much better. I'd never watched Blue Bloods, for one. RE: Local OTA TV - Cuzz - 03-16-2018 I guess reception varies depending upon where you are. I know mine changes with time of day and even weather. I can move my homemade antenna just a foot or two and bring in a channel or not. Still, it beats paying $900 a year or more for cable. RE: Local OTA TV - GPnative - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 09:49 AM)Cuzz Wrote: I guess reception varies depending upon where you are. I know mine changes with time of day and even weather. I can move my homemade antenna just a foot or two and bring in a channel or not. Is it indoor or outdoor antenna? Also, an amplified antenna is a must, It doesn't matter how close you are to a tower, an amplified antenna makes all the difference in the world. RE: Local OTA TV - tvguy - 03-16-2018 (03-15-2018, 08:23 PM)chuck white Wrote:(03-15-2018, 08:18 PM)Cuzz Wrote: Seems there is a new local over the air TV station, channel 12.3 real crime, full time. I think they're doing this just for TV. Vhf Uhf , what ever it takes. RE: Local OTA TV - tvguy - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 07:40 AM)bbqboy Wrote: 12.3 is terrible. It's pretty corn ball. All the shows are basically the same. They just change a few minor things. We watch it. I make fun of Tom Selleck all the time because his favorite thing to do in every episode is to exhale heavily. So then I do it to piss off the wife RE: Local OTA TV - tvguy - 03-16-2018 I get a channel with Direct TV that's all about crimes stuff. Anyway as we speak I put my TV on antenna mode and it's scanning looking for channels. It probably won't find any since I don't have an antenna. OK no luck. I guess I need to get an antenna. RE: Local OTA TV - Cuzz - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 12:51 PM)tvguy Wrote: I get a channel with Direct TV that's all about crimes stuff. Yeah, the TV KNOWS!! RE: Local OTA TV - GPnative - 03-16-2018 I used an indoor antenna for a long time, it served me well but was more prone to signal interference. I finally got around to installing an outdoor antenna and it has been great, solid signal on all networks. I can't stress enough, whether indoor or outdoor, get an amplified one. RE: Local OTA TV - Cuzz - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 12:03 PM)GPnative Wrote:(03-16-2018, 09:49 AM)Cuzz Wrote: I guess reception varies depending upon where you are. I know mine changes with time of day and even weather. I can move my homemade antenna just a foot or two and bring in a channel or not. Mine's an indoor contraption I built out of scrap wood and coat hangers. I wanted to see if I could get the local news OTA before spending good money on a store bought antenna. To my astonishment, my piece of junk antenna ended up working better then the store bought amplified one I got. So that's what I'm still using. Home made antenna = about 27 channels! Store bought antenna = about 22 channels. I keep meaning to make a better looking one but it works so it's not high priority. RE: Local OTA TV - GPnative - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 12:43 PM)tvguy Wrote:(03-16-2018, 07:40 AM)bbqboy Wrote: 12.3 is terrible. I can't do Blue Bloods, My wife watches it, and I give her a hard time about it, but it jumped the shark for me in season 1. They had an entire story line that just disappeared, like they wrote themselves into a corner and said, ahh fuck it. The family dinner table scenes annoy me. RE: Local OTA TV - GPnative - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 01:52 PM)Cuzz Wrote:(03-16-2018, 12:03 PM)GPnative Wrote:(03-16-2018, 09:49 AM)Cuzz Wrote: I guess reception varies depending upon where you are. I know mine changes with time of day and even weather. I can move my homemade antenna just a foot or two and bring in a channel or not. The coat hangers work more as a telescoping antenna which is better for VHF, the new fancy marketed stuff, flat panels, etc, are better suited for UHF, that's why a set of rabbit ears in our area will outperform most any other option. RE: Local OTA TV - Cuzz - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 01:57 PM)GPnative Wrote:(03-16-2018, 01:52 PM)Cuzz Wrote:(03-16-2018, 12:03 PM)GPnative Wrote:(03-16-2018, 09:49 AM)Cuzz Wrote: I guess reception varies depending upon where you are. I know mine changes with time of day and even weather. I can move my homemade antenna just a foot or two and bring in a channel or not. I would describe mine as more of a phased bow-tie style like the one in this link. It seems to work equally well on vhf or uhf. https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/how-to/a6608/build-your-own-digital-tv-antenna/ RE: Local OTA TV - GPnative - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 02:08 PM)Cuzz Wrote:(03-16-2018, 01:57 PM)GPnative Wrote:(03-16-2018, 01:52 PM)Cuzz Wrote:(03-16-2018, 12:03 PM)GPnative Wrote:(03-16-2018, 09:49 AM)Cuzz Wrote: I guess reception varies depending upon where you are. I know mine changes with time of day and even weather. I can move my homemade antenna just a foot or two and bring in a channel or not. Yup, that'll work. RE: Local OTA TV - tvguy - 03-16-2018 Can you still get METAL coat hangars? Have you guys seen the coat hanger and balancing penny trick? I've been doing this for people for my whole life. I can't even remember where I learned this. Anyway I've been at people homes and they don't have a metal coat hangar. And if they do, the new ones are co thin it's vary hard if not impossible to balance the penny. Here it is... RE: Local OTA TV - Juniper - 03-16-2018 (03-16-2018, 07:40 AM)bbqboy Wrote: 12.3 is terrible. Blue Bloods is like the serious cop version of "Last Man Standing." |