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UHF is too valuable, but the VHF spectrum isn't so much. Cell phones would be ok with UHF, but there's no way you could fit an antenna to do VHF spectrum. Also, there's not much bandwidth available on the VHF spectrum side. You only have 42MHz of usable VHF spectrum on the Hi band. That's not...

Well of course the whole transition to 3.0 is not for the consumers. It is all about money. As cable continues to bleed customers and their broadcast fees take a dive, they want another revenue stream to take its place. They've already found out that they can compress the crap out of channels on...

I was thinking that it came out in 2009, but the funding was set aside in February of 2006. At that time, the debt was around 8.9 trillion. Well, with the cuts going on right now and that debt being $30 trillion more than then, I don't think there's any hope you'll see a coupon or gift card to...

I see nothing special. It's really just a club of people foaming at the mouth to turn a profit on new technology. I doubt they'll get their mandate. When the last mandate went out, the government wasn't so loaded up on debt and was able to provide coupons for buying boxes. They'll likely claim...

Justin, you put a lot into that spreadsheet. Thanks for sending that our way. That's very helpful! Btw, I wish my market had Movies! It would be nice to have a 24/7 movie channel that didn't require the Internet or streaming.

Agreed, he should stick to producing TV shows and get out of the channel owning business. He almost crippled his stations by trying to oust the weather teams from them. It was only when consumers fought back that he backed down. On top of selling his stations, he should put the Weather Channel...

Competition is generally a good thing. There were competing standards for the original NTSC color standard before the backwards compatible standard took hold.

Where have you been? The FCC the past decade or more has been on the side of the broadcasters and cell phone companies. They were on the side of consumers back when the cable card was authorized for TV manufacturers and when they forced locals to be carried in the clear. Then, they reversed both...

I think they'll get their way on this. The consumer will get shafted, but that's been the plan all along. Those so called people's airwaves are at the bidding of whoever wants to pay the highest price. We'll get the DRM encrypted stuff on lesser bandwidth.

I don't blame them, though. Allen is sidelining his talent. Yes, you don't state the obvious at your current workplace unless you want retribution. I wouldn't be surprised if Allen decides to fire all of news staff for the local stations and has a team handy to do all of the newscasts for the...

Allen just needs to sell off his assets (tv stations and networks) before he runs them in the toilet and can't use them as a bargaining chip when he's declared bankruptcy. The guy has made a handful of decent shows, but he knows nothing about running networks or tv stations. He's sued companies...

We don't have an HOA, and putting an antenna on the house isn't prohibited, but based on the area and the look of the homes, I don't really wish to stick out like a sore thumb. There was a guy that used to live in the area with a trailer, and they tried to make it tough for him until he finally...

I ended up going for the Clearstream 2V. It's hanging up in a rafter and gets everything but the low VHF channel and WNAL. I checked details on WNAL, and the antenna seems to be focused West. I'm Northwest of that transmitter, and I think it's not likely I'd get much of anything on my end...

The channel it broadcasted on my affiliate station was originally This TV before it changed over last year. This TV was pretty awesome back when MGM owned it. It was run down after Allen Media bought it. The guy has a handful of good shows, but he can't seem to run an entire network channel...

The band should be about 2.8 to 1.8 meters on a half-wave dipole antenna. My understanding is that you would cut these numbers in half and measure out 1.4 meters for one piece of metal and 1.4 meters for the other piece of metal to get down to 54MHz and join the two in the middle with a 300 Ohm...

Did Allen Media pull the plug on the Grio? As of this morning, the Grio is showing up as unavailable on Allen Media's WAAY out of Huntsville. I know they had layoffs back in August. Another forum mentioned that Sinclair stations made an agreement to switch from the Grio to TBD this month.

They need an option to reboot in the software like Roku does for their units. That would be a lot easier and simpler process than a hard reboot.

Has anyone been having long wait times on their Tablo unit? I've got mine connected via Ethernet and with plenty of signal from a pair of rabbit ears according to the signal meter on scanning in the channels, but sometimes it seems like I can wait upwards of a minute or so before it will pull up...

After much frustration, I decided to forego my plan. With the antenna at full length. I was facing the issue of potentially puncturing my duct work with the UHF directors or bending the low VHF reflector on the back end. I could leave off a set of directors and the reflector, but I figured I’d...

I tried to put in a full panoramic photo of the attic area, but the site said that was too big. Anyway, I opted for the Televes Dat Boss Mix LR Full band antenna. I did some measurements in the space shown, and I can just squeeze in the antenna without disturbing the duct work. It's a bit of a...

I don't see anything too exciting from the news. They mention viewers of broadcast, but they don't mention viewers of 3.0 specifically in their stats. The more I think about it, the more that it makes sense that if the FCC does go this route of selling up all but a few channels, then the...

Take a look at Lon TV's latest video on ATSC 3.0. The (expected) head of the FCC made a speech about auctioning off more TV spectrum in return for a move to 3.0. It was a speech made 4 years ago, but he probably hasn't changed his idea in that amount of time. He's still on the FCC and is...

It's likely too late at this point since sheetrock would be in the way of running that conduit.

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I have a great signal location for my main OTA market, and I can sometimes pick up the next nearest market when tropo or night time ducting occurs with an outdoor set up at my old house. I'm trying to avoid an outdoor mount due to the fact that my house is the first home in the neighborhood. My...