09-28-2012, 02:41 AM
I get 10 channels in "lower east Mountain VIew" with:
- amplified antenna from walmart ("RCA", looks like a VHS tape)
- 35-foot mast (two sections of top rail from Big Island Fencing)
- RG6 ("satellite") lead-in
I use a Hauppage HVR1950 (amazon) for recording; they're a little spendy but they work great (it's got an encoder, so works with old/slow computers just fine, unlike the cheap tuners that need a 2GHz system to run the encoder in software).
The "odd" channels (28, 51) are distant repeaters; if you already get "all" the Hilo stations these won't add anything to the lineup.
There is still one old-style low-power NTSC station (45?) with religious programming.
Note that ATSC-over-VHF is actually the exception to the rule; most parts of the country are UHF.
- amplified antenna from walmart ("RCA", looks like a VHS tape)
- 35-foot mast (two sections of top rail from Big Island Fencing)
- RG6 ("satellite") lead-in
I use a Hauppage HVR1950 (amazon) for recording; they're a little spendy but they work great (it's got an encoder, so works with old/slow computers just fine, unlike the cheap tuners that need a 2GHz system to run the encoder in software).
The "odd" channels (28, 51) are distant repeaters; if you already get "all" the Hilo stations these won't add anything to the lineup.
There is still one old-style low-power NTSC station (45?) with religious programming.
Note that ATSC-over-VHF is actually the exception to the rule; most parts of the country are UHF.