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Directv
(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...
MarkJFine wrote:And then I got my DirecTV bill.
The one that just went up 4% this month...
This is the reason for my interest in OTA. My Directv bill is $ 40 a month more than my HN bill. Both are one of lowest plans they offer.
Reggie- You won't want to trade bills with me then. DTV costs are crazy enough, and between the way the networks 'negotiate' now and the way the F C C looks the other way... Imagine a major network like ABC or CBS being discontinued on your TV provider because of a contract negotiation. Nuts.
Incidentally, found this to be a pretty good resource for planning OTA: http://www.tvfool.com/
When it gets warmer was going to fetch the extension ladder and see if I couldn't manually rotate in some stations (aka TV DX like a proper caveman). Probably needed to tweak the thing when we had the roof replaced anyway.
Even thought of using a way to have my laptop local-skype a picture of the tuning meter of the TV up to my phone while I'm on the roof so I could see what was going on real time.
