OTA TV

[Kenney]

We get 14 channels with an Outdoor Radio Shack antenna. If you live HPP, get their best one for decent reception. CBS comes in fine as does ABC, NBC, PBS, Fox and now the 45's and 10's.

[Gus]

I use an outdoor one I got at Home Depot for about $100. I also stuck on an amplifier, but don't really need it. I got all the channels (14 Ithink) at 30th and Makuu and got the same ones on 38th a n Laniuma in Orchidlands.

[TomK]

For years I used a Radio Shack indoor antenna and it worked very well until a couple of months ago my cat knocked it off the TV cabinet and broke it. I bought this to replace it:

http://amzn.com/B00RST4TQC

and it works OK but nowhere near as good as the previous antenna. I just happened to have ordered the same model as the one in terracore's link which arrives Monday or Tuesday this coming week, so will let you know how it performs.

I'm in lower HPP. Like macuu222 I've never been able to get the NBC channels, but they can be received in other areas of HPP and Orchidland.

One question: who do you contact when there are OTA transmitter problems? I have contact info for channel 45-1 (CBS and KGMB) but nothing else. For me, everything is still down apart from the 45 and 10 channels, although I think all the others are still active, just operating at very low power (I don't get a channel unavailable message, just a poor signal quality one). This all seemed to happen around the same time as the power outages yesterday evening.

islandlvng - something happened with the channel 45 transmitter some months ago which made the signal much weaker. I don't know what it was. 45-1, 2 and 3 were always the strongest signals I received, but now they are the hardest to get.

[macuu222]

Channel 14-1 is back. Nothing else....

[H22]

According to filings posted on the FCC's website, channels 10 and 45 use a different method (then 4, 9, 11, 13 and 14) to deliver their signal to the Big Island from Honolulu.

10 (PBS) and 45 (K45CT) do it wirelessly-- as far as I know, the others are using a fiber optic submarine telecommunications cable system. That may be the factor making the difference.

[kalakoa]

the others are using a fiber optic submarine telecommunications cable system

They rent the fiber from Oceanic. Sometimes when this fails, the transmitters remain online with "dead carrier".

[macuu222]

Does anyone know if a interior rabbit ears signal enhancer pick up OTA stations in Fern Acres near the end of Pikake?

[ElysianWort]

Been a few days now and still without my regular stations which are 4.1, 4.2, 9, 11.1 and 11.2. Anyone else still missing stations?

[macuu222]

Still out here............ also 9 and 13 are out. Could be a while. Better get use to watching just PBS and CBS

[TomK]

Maybe no-one knows, but just to repeat my question, who do you contact to report OTA transmitter problems?

One thing I keep telling people is don't expect a problem to be fixed unless it's reported, but what do you do if there's no way to report a problem?