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I'm thinking about canceling Directv. I've been doing research on OTA antennas. There are so many out there, my head is swimming. If someone who uses or has used in the past I would like to hear some...
Be real careful of the terrain you're going to use it in.
I'm in the foothills of the Piedmont, where even a 10' antenna mast mounted on the roof doesn't clear the top of the hill that's in the way. I'm roughly 50-60 miles from DC TV market, but with the terrain I might as well be 100 miles away.
As a result I only get 3 reliable stations over the air: 2 of them were in the old VHF range (7 and 9), and one in the low UHF (30, and part of that station is actually only ~10 mi away).
As you may know, the old analog channel numbers aren't necessarily similar in freuqency when it comes to the new digital stations are on. For example, what used to be Channel 4 (VHF low) here is now broadcasting on a frequency equivalent to what was Channel 48 (UHF).
(grin) I know all about hills and no line of site.
Cell coverage drops out at my neighbors' mailbox.
I am 10 mi N of Winchester, in the foothills of Capon Bridge WV.
Thats Why everything is dish sourced here, Even HughesVoice.
DirecTV wont stream very well on my HT2000 either.
I'm kinda screwed when we get 2+' of snow. I dont even have a land line anymore.
You guys are GREAT helping me keep HughesNet working. (grin)
My neighbor is on the top of my hill and gets 42 channels with her digital antennae
Yeah, so you know the stations and the situation I'm talking about.
I also get two bars of LTE if I'm in my upstairs office/gym/... (if it's dry out, and the trees are bare), but zip anywhere else in the house.
And then I got my DirecTV bill.
The one that just went up 4% this month...
