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We've been watching hockey via one of the secondary broadcast channels on the back porch.
Which is fine as long as the weather cooperates.
Lately, though, reception has been a bit choppy and we have neighbors who turn up their music too loud.
So I ordered a bigger antenna!
I clamped it to the mount that used to hold our abandoned in place Dish Network dish.
There was some bother with aiming because my phone's compass wasn't calibrated properly. I was off like 13° south of where the transmitters were!
Bonus: since we were using abandoned Dish Network stuff anyways, we now have broadcast TV in the living room too!
It just took me a bit to find which of the coax cables in the attic led to the wall-jack nearest to the TV.
I owe Marv dinner for his help.
13 degrees off on the compass act? That's not very good. Yeesh, that's enough to get you dead offshore or deep in the mountains. Did you get a fix for it?
ReplyDeleteIt loses calibration all the time. If I was offshore or hiking, I'd bring actual compass not the phone.
DeleteI don't get cable, too depraved and too expensive. I use a small, amplified indoor antenna(live in an apartment) at my window facing the broadcast antennas and receive 8 channels and that is enough for me.
ReplyDeleteThe small, amplified, indoor antenna was what we were using to get a couple channels on the back porch. But we had it mounted on the roof to get that signal. It was becoming unreliable because the cable routing was being frayed by the edge of the door. That routing was selected because I considered it a temporary solution.
DeleteNew antenna uses the routing from the original owner's long removed TV aerial.
We cut most of the cord a couple years ago. Harvey subscribes to Sling which has all the channels we'd been paying 4x as much for with Dish.