OTA Antenna from Dish TV

[charlesrshell]

Does anyone know what kind of OTA antenna Dish is going to offer for first time customer installs that is $49.99? CSR didn't seem to know. Does it depend on where you live? Do those OTA antennas that mound on the dish work very well? Thanks to all that respond.

 

[oljim]

Clip on dish ants suck.

 

[crappieguy]

Pretty much any antenna they offer for free is gonna suck. Unless you live VERY close to the source.

 

[kingbiged]

I would think that it would be better than a clip on for $49!

 

[BFG]

It's a winegard square shooter. - http://www.winegard.com/offair/squareshooter.htm

A very cool looking and great performing antenna.

here it is branded by dish

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[Tom Bombadil]

That's a higher quality antenna than I expected them to include. I've read good reports on it picking up stations of 20-30 miles away.

 

[Mike500]

The only problm with the Winegard Squareshooter is that it is UHF only, meaning that it might not be good enough, when the HD ATSC OTA switchover occurs on Feb. 17, 2009.

The orignal plan was to switch all HD OTA to UHF, but the FCC has now changed the assignments. Some stations will go back to their original VHF assignments.

Only channels 51-69 will not be available for HD.

So, all of those, who opted for UHF only will have to replace their antennas or be out of receiving a lot of channels.

 

[rc811002]

Charles, I have had good performance with square shooter here in STL. If it doesn't work out of the box, I would usually add a pre-amp, low power, 19db gain first then 28db gain, if needed. I am surprised that Dish would commit to installing another mast. I use a Stealth II (built-in pre-amp) for my 921 and a SS with 19db pre-amp for the 811. Just because I can. Also, STL HD transmits are currently UHF. Don't know what the future holds.

 

[rc811002]

Forgot to mention... Where you are located you may be able to get the SIU digital channels.

 

[rc811002]

Just noticed another thing... KMOV CBS is at transmit 56. All the others are 47 and below. So, if they are moved back to 4 then another (different) antenna would be needed.

 

[epsilon]

Under what circumstances would they do this install for an existing customer?

 

[BFG]

They can install for existing too I believe. Same price $49.

 

[kingbiged]

I have an install of the 622 on 3/4, can I tell them then to install, or do I need to call and add to my order?