Sick fo digital crap

[Daver1963]

Dave remember when color tv started to become popular and Sears sold a gold Antenna to pick up the color tv signal.

used to be able to purchase a single channel amplifiers for weak stations and if signal was 100 miles away could get a clear signal
Even sit up at night and watch skip from some station several states away. now if cloudy no tv.
But a least old days when talking to some one they didn't hold the phone to there ear to hear some one else talking
watch a pack of teen agers all holding phones and flicking the key board Ask them a question get for answer Duh.
ken

I remember early 70s we still had a giant black & white console TV. My aunt and her husband had a color TV. "The Sound of Music" was coming on CBS I think it was and that was a Memphis station 100 miles away. Well, not only did my aunt have a color TV she also lives on the tallest hill just outside of town so she got a pretty constant signal. Mother was determined she was going to see "The Sound of Music" in color so all the kids were bathed, dressed in PJs, and off we went to watch the movie.

 

[k0ua]

I remember early 70s we still had a giant black & white console TV. My aunt and her husband had a color TV. "The Sound of Music" was coming on CBS I think it was and that was a Memphis station 100 miles away. Well, not only did my aunt have a color TV she also lives on the tallest hill just outside of town so she got a pretty constant signal. Mother was determined she was going to see "The Sound of Music" in color so all the kids were bathed, dressed in PJs, and off we went to watch the movie.

When I was a child,(late teens) one of the jobs I had was working for a couple of appliance stores. I put up hundreds of Television Antennas, many on very high masts and with rotators. It was common to regularly receive signals from nearly 100 miles. One of my friends I worked with put up a huge RCA 4bg69 antenna that was a double stacked Log Periodic with a large corner reflector on the front of it for UHF. He had this antenna on his Ham tower at nearly 90 feet. Of course it pulled in signals from Tulsa, and Kansas city as well as the Joplin and Springfield stations. Naturally one of our ice-storms took it down. It is hard to keep that much aluminum in the air.

 

[Daver1963]

He had this antenna on his Ham tower at nearly 90 feet. Of course it pulled in signals from Tulsa, and Kansas city as well as the Joplin and Springfield stations. Naturally one of our ice-storms took it down. It is hard to keep that much aluminum in the air.

One thing we guys on the ground could never get our flyboys to understand when it came to talking on UHF from ground-to-air was just as when you are at 40k ft you can talk a lot of distance the antenna on the ground needs height also. They just couldn't understand why they couldn't talk to the scheduling desk on approach 60 miles out at 1200ft when scheduling was using an 8w system with an antenna at 30ft with a 90ft hanger in the way.

 

[Wakey]

Most of the antennas that I have installed were in the attic, suspended from the rafters with light low voltage wire. Thinking about getting started or improving your setup? Go here http://www.avsforum.com/f/25/hdtv-technical

 

[deepNdirt]

Remember when there was no TV after midnight, all the stations signed off,

 

[farmgirl19]

You have pics of this contraption, I would like to dump cable tv in the spring

I didn't think that you had a TV, Murph! :stirthepot:

 

[/pine]

Remember when there was no TV after midnight, all the stations signed off,

I used to get up early on Saturday mornings and watch the test pattern until they played the Star Spangled Banner and then programming I was waiting for....Red Ryder, Tarzan...when my older sisters would get up they would switch to cartoons...ugh...

 

[Gunny]

Remember when there was no TV after midnight, all the stations signed off,

I'd actually forgotten all about that, thanks for reminding me! Yes Sir, get to stay up late a night and after the late news, down she goes! I guess that's also why I have such a passion for fishing in the early morning hours, my brother and I would wake up early, we couldn't watch TV, so we went fishing.

 

[MikeInEburg]

Remember when there was no TV after midnight, all the stations signed off,

I remember as a kid in the late 60s, one if the local stations would begin their broadcast day with the poem High Flight, written by a US aviator killed in England during the Second World War. The poem was set with a video taken from the cockpit of a jet fighter. It must have been significant to my world, because I can still remember the last line "Put out my hand, and touched the face of God".

 

[dmccarty]

3rdDoc,

You are going in the wrong direction. Go cold turkey on "tv", get rid of it and the giant idiocracy anchor that comes with it. We ditched TV over a year ago, and I am happy to report that our lives are much better. We retained the internet, and Netflix so we can watch the movies or series that we choose, without commercials.

What is really nice is when friends/neighbors ask if we saw the latest tragedy, or latest Hollywood arrest, or........"Nope, really...that's just terrible"gringrin. The reality of no TV is that you can be much more creative with your life and accomplish more every single day....try it.

We got rid of Directv in 12/2012 and we kick ourselves for not doing it earlier. We talked about getting rid of Directv for years but it took years for us to actually cut the cord. We have really bad Internet service both from a speed perspective, 1.5MB down, and for reliability but we can watch Amazon Prime and Netflix without much problem. Biggest issue is trying to watch a streaming video on the TV while the kids are doing the same on a PC, iPod, Kindle, or cell phone at the same time. We just don't have the bandwidth for that much streaming.

We also buy DVDs/DB's for shows we will watch more than once.

I asked on TBN about antennas and put one in the attic. The review were decent on Amazon but some reviews said the amplifier failed after a few months. Our amplifier failed as well. We got a dozen or so channels but then a bunch of them were no longer viewable. If I unplug the amplifier the number of signals drops further so the amp is only sorta broke. Not a real loss since we do not watch any major network 99.9999% of the time. We might watch a channel for news and one of the kid made me watch the super bowl and few basket ball games. I could care less about either and just read some books and Internet forums while the noise was in the back ground. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan