It's approximately 7:30 on a Monday evening. On three consecutive network channels, we've got Inside Edition, The Insider, and Access Hollywood. All three are celebrity gossip shows. Why the [expletive deleted] did I buy this antenna? P.S. Antiques Roadshow ... to the rescue?...
We've finally got the Antennas Direct DB4 mounted in the attic with the feed line run through a new hole in the wall. A few observations.This antenna kicks ass. I'm running it through a standalone 16dB amplifier and the reception blows away the rabbit ears with the (ahem) 32dB built-in...
It seems I spend an awful lot of my time climbing into strange corners of my house and cutting things in half. Today's adventure involved the crawlspace and a few hundred feet of galvanized steel pipe. One of the previous owners had the entire plumbing system in this house pulled...
In installing ye olde antenna(e), I'm forced to tackle an issue I've been avoiding for quite a while: fishing cable down from the attic into an exterior wall. There are a handful of problems with this. Luckily, one of them isn't insulation—it appears our house is old enough that the...
Based on the recommendations of Mouser and Manuel, Layla and I have decided1 to go for a two-antenna solution. Half of this is a relatively inexpensive, powered VHF/UHF antenna for picking up the local old-school analog VHF stations. This thing is cheap and rabbit-ear-tastic, and has a huge glowing blue...
I realize that rockin' the TV signals over the airwaves without intervention from cable, satellite, or IPTV feels like something of an anachronism, but please bear with me. Anyone have any idea what's up with the current menu of television antennae? I feel like it's the same old set of...
