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    Antenna Help! Signals in opposite direction

    something smells fishy on the price you got there. OK Judging from experince of living in Lincoln for a school year, I lived in a 2nd floor dormroom, using just a plain RCA indoor antenna, and picked up everything in the region, including WCIA. judgeging by your location I'd guess your in...
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    Very Good $2.00 Homemade Antenna For HDTV

    Also Folks in far outlying areas, can Double the prongs up and down, and that will help things out real well, in fact getting some reports of folks in B.C. Being able to pickup the seattle-Tacoma stations real well. The thread on a website that started all of the DIY antenna boom: DIY HDTV...
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    Southcentral Illinois antenna help

    well I just heard about an antenna from rat shack, which around here always has good stuff, the vu-190 selling for 100 bucks. there's been a lot of talk that it is the best antenna you can buy without buying online (sorry, I'm not that trustworthy of online stores at all, and neither is mom and...
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    Southcentral Illinois antenna help

    yeah no kidding, WTWO isn't even in stereo yet believe it or not. I may have to settle though for dishnetwork hd, even though I want real HD, not hdlite. know what I mean guys.
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    Southcentral Illinois antenna help

    I thought that DT signals went out further than the analog signal?
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    Southcentral Illinois antenna help

    are you kidding, I hate directv, if they used correct data, then I wouldn't have to worry about waiver crap! I want FREE HDTV, not some expensive HD lite that directv forces down your throat.
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    Southcentral Illinois antenna help

    We live in deep fringe area, here's our closest markets. zip 62839 We are getting ready to buy our first HDTV soon, and I want to put an antenna up, now i've seen a phillips MANT901 at Menards (Lowes,Home Depot wannabe) for 70. It claims to have vhf of 150-200 miles (I'd expect closer to...
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    "The Tube" gone from Minneapolis (WUCW 23-2)??

    no kidding, I just wish that they would get a final contract for the mediacom crap. I have to see it every 15 minutes on our sincrap station. I can't wait until we get our HDTV, so hopefully we can pick up WSIL out of Harrisburg then I won't have any sincrap to deal with.
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    $40?

    good point on that most of these tv's will be over 10 years old. I'm sure that some of the people will think, that in the long run it may be cheaper to get a new tv, espically since I just saw a 30" HD widescreen for $415. and not a sale price either. of course it was from walmart but it was...
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    OTA help

    hey larry, good idea on the local tv shops. but around here a local tv shop is called WAL-MART! there is only 1 tv repair shop in town and he sells E* but they right now want locals that actually cover our area roo bad the st.louis stations don't hardly cover us. oh and jim, i know for a...
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    OTA help

    thanks.
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    THE TUBE Comes to Connecticut!

    it's also on WB11 in St. louis at 11.2
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    OTA help

    I do hate to disagree on the picking up of SC, but it was LIVE news at noon from Charleston, SC. It was hard to believe for me at first too man trust me. but it was. That antenna from solid signal looks really good, and I have heard a lot of good things about them, but this person really isn't...
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    OTA help

    UPDATE: With his RCA indoor amped antenna, he has been picking up stations from the Bloomington, IN PAX area? and Evansville, IN stations. The first day after we had it up, we were picking up a station from south carolina in analog. Of course this was only for a little bit, but most...
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    OTA help

    Hi guys, this really isn't an HD question, but it is OTA. I am working on a friends house in my home town zip code 62839. He does not have sat, and he lives out in the country so cable is a no-go. I know we are a LONG, LONG way from towers for any locals for an indoor antenna, and I got a...