dmccarty
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We are tired of paying Directv half a decent car payment each month, and finding nothing to watch, so we are getting ready to cancel the service.
We are using Netflix and Amazon Prime for streaming but we do watch some gardening and cooking shows on PBS. These shows might be online but if we can get them over the air we might as well do so. Streaming works for us but we only have 1.5mb down which is going to limit how many shows we can watch at the same time.
The house is on top of a hill, not a tall hill, but there is a cell tower a mile away and the tower's warning light is about eye level with us. I don't want the antenna outside on a pole if I can avoid it. I think the PBS broadcast antenna is 15-20 miles away. I just want to stick the antenna in the attic and drop the coax into our wiring "closet." I see that some antennas don't handle channels lower than 6 and we need channel 4. And we might as well have FM reception as well.
I did find that the FCC has a website that shows the signal strength at your house that might of interest to others.
Any suggestions on what antenna we should get, look for or avoid?
Thanks,
Dan
We are tired of paying Directv half a decent car payment each month, and finding nothing to watch, so we are getting ready to cancel the service.
We are using Netflix and Amazon Prime for streaming but we do watch some gardening and cooking shows on PBS. These shows might be online but if we can get them over the air we might as well do so. Streaming works for us but we only have 1.5mb down which is going to limit how many shows we can watch at the same time.
The house is on top of a hill, not a tall hill, but there is a cell tower a mile away and the tower's warning light is about eye level with us. I don't want the antenna outside on a pole if I can avoid it. I think the PBS broadcast antenna is 15-20 miles away. I just want to stick the antenna in the attic and drop the coax into our wiring "closet." I see that some antennas don't handle channels lower than 6 and we need channel 4. And we might as well have FM reception as well.
I did find that the FCC has a website that shows the signal strength at your house that might of interest to others.
Any suggestions on what antenna we should get, look for or avoid?
Thanks,
Dan