Are digital antennas okay for local TV stations?

[leftwinger]

Yeah, there's other channels available that I can't say I care about, but if I can get probably get the major sports events that I care about.


Re the lightning, **** the cat. He don't earn his keep anyway. Balanced floating input? You're ******* with me now, aren'tcha.

You won't get TBS TRUE ESPN MLB type channels etc. If its a big event on ABC NBC CBS FOX you will get it on antenna.

 

[toobfreak]

You won't get TBS TRUE ESPN MLB type channels etc.

But then, TBS and ESPN suck.

If its a big event on ABC NBC CBS FOX you will get it on antenna.

I've been watching a lot of Indy, Formula One, Gran Prix, drag racing, and NASCAR stuff each weekend. There is also the occasional baseball and XFL game on right now. During football season, there is football on all day and night on Sundays.

Otherwise, OTA, I get for free:

• CBS
• StartTV
• DABL
• FAVE
• Catchy TV
• ABC
• Cozi
• Story (like the History channel)
• NBC
• MeTV
• LAFF TV
• News channel
• Rev'n channel (cars)
• Action
• Family
• Weather Nation
• PBS
• Create
• World
• PBS Kids
• ION
• Bounce
• Game shows
• H&I
• GRIT (westerns)
• Movie channel
• Outlaw (westerns)
• Comet
• Stadium
• TBD
• Court
• Quest TV
• GetTV
• DEFY
• Antenna
• Charge!
• Toons
• Buzzer (game shows)
• Newsmax
• OAN
• RAV News
• NTD News

and many others I won't list because I don't generally watch them.

 

[task0778]

I find these extraneous channels carry better programming then the main ones.


It was the cat's time anyway.


No, there are balanced and unbalanced inputs. What they call single-ended in audio jargon.
Balanced inputs "float" above ground because they are ungrounded, differential, instead of single-ended.
Unless the antenna carries a pathway to ground, you have no worries.
Likely, the antenna starts out 300-ohm, then uses a balun to convert to 75 ohm.
Balanced inputs use circuit-ground as their reference, instead of earth-ground like an unbalanced input.

Well, the antenna has a coax cable that connects to the tv and the power cord that plugs into the electrical outlet. Hopefully neither is a pathway to ground. That's about all I understood about what you said.

 

[toobfreak]

Well, the antenna has a coax cable that connects to the tv and the power cord that plugs into the electrical outlet. Hopefully neither is a pathway to ground. That's about all I understood about what you said.

You're good. That is just a standard fare powered antenna (has built in 10-20 dB gain amplifier to help pull in weaker stations).

 

[task0778]

But then, TBS and ESPN suck.


I've been watching a lot of Indy, Formula One, Gran Prix, drag racing, and NASCAR stuff each weekend. There is also the occasional baseball and XFL game on right now. During football season, there is football on all day and night on Sundays.

Otherwise, OTA, I get for free:

• CBS
• StartTV
• DABL
• FAVE
• Catchy TV
• ABC
• Cozi
• Story (like the History channel)
• NBC
• MeTV
• LAFF TV
• News channel
• Rev'n channel (cars)
• Action
• Family
• Weather Nation
• PBS
• Create
• World
• PBS Kids
• ION
• Bounce
• Game shows
• H&I
• GRIT (westerns)
• Movie channel
• Outlaw (westerns)
• Comet
• Stadium
• TBD
• Court
• Quest TV
• GetTV
• DEFY
• Antenna
• Charge!
• Toons
• Buzzer (game shows)
• Newsmax
• OAN
• RAV News
• NTD News

and many others I won't list because I don't generally watch them.

I don't watch much tv anymore, mostly football and major sports events. I do get these channels over my antenna but I'm not too interested in them just yet.

 

[toobfreak]

I don't watch much tv anymore, mostly football and major sports events. I do get these channels over my antenna but I'm not too interested in them just yet.

Sometimes I enjoy watching girls beach pickleball or volleyball while they play in skimpy thongs and cutoffs wearing no bra.

 

[Flopper]

So, you are using an analog antenna to pick up digital signals? You are just extremely fortunate. Most people will not be that lucky.

There's no such thing as a "digital antenna" that's specifically designed for digital signals. Antennas respond to radio frequencies, regardless of whether the signal is modulated as analog or digital. As long as the antenna is designed for the frequency of the digital broadcast, it will work.

 

[toobfreak]

There's no such thing as a "digital antenna" that's specifically designed for digital signals. Antennas respond to radio frequencies, regardless of whether the signal is modulated as analog or digital. As long as the antenna is designed for the frequency of the digital broadcast, it will work.

All covered in post #3. But at least you sound like you understand what a modulated RF carrier is, so have some idea how the antenna captures radio waves and converts them to electrical energy.

All good stuff to know.

 

[task0778]

Sometimes I enjoy watching girls beach pickleball or volleyball while they play in skimpy thongs and cutoffs wearing no bra.

So, you are a pervert and a dirty old man, huh? Around here, you fit right in.

 

[toobfreak]

So, you are a pervert and a dirty old man, huh? Around here, you fit right in.

Nah, I just appreciate a healthy, tight, athletic body...

 

[task0778]

Nah, I just appreciate a healthy, tight, athletic body...

What channel?

 

[toobfreak]

What channel?

I don't know, maybe the Stadium channel or TBD.

 

[The Duke]

I got 2 powered antennas. One is from Radio Shack, so..
Don't even watch broadcast anymore. Get into a show and all of a sudden there's faggotry.
Also more commercials now than ever.

 

[The Duke]

Nah, I just appreciate a healthy, tight, athletic body...

That was a heck of a volleyball set.

 

[toobfreak]

Don't even watch broadcast anymore. Get into a show and all of a sudden there's faggotry.

Good reason to watch one of the many rerun channels--- there is no faggotry on old shows. And any TV show still being shown 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years later, has to be a pretty damn good show, a hell of a lot better than the stuff on today. Every Saturday afternoon, one station still shows 6 or so Three Stooges, and they are what? 90 years old?

Also more commercials now than ever.

You should time shift. You look up on the TV guide listings for your DVR the programs you are interested in watching, then set them to record. Then you get to watch them at a time convenient to you and you can skip right over the commercials.

 

[The Duke]

Good reason to watch one of the many rerun channels--- there is no faggotry on old shows. And any TV show still being shown 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years later, has to be a pretty damn good show, a hell of a lot better than the stuff on today. Every Saturday afternoon, one station still shows 6 or so Three Stooges, and they are what? 90 years old?


You should time shift. You look up on the TV guide listings for your DVR the programs you are interested in watching, then set them to record. Then you get to watch them at a time convenient to you and you can skip right over the commercials.

I probably have most of that stuff. Little Rascals, too.

 

[egp320i]

I don't watch cable much anymore and it's getting really expensive. I know, I'm joining the party kinda late, but better late than never. I'm thinking a good indoor antenna will work, some of them have a large reception distance.

RCA and GE make some inside amplified for 30 bucks, at walmart

probably not a huge demand thus the are fairly cheap

 

[toobfreak]

RCA and GE make some inside amplified for 30 bucks, at walmart

There is no RCA. RCA closed up ages ago back in the 1980s. Some French company called Thompson Consumer Electronics bought the rights to the name as a tertiary to GE.

 

[Flopper]

All covered in post #3. But at least you sound like you understand what a modulated RF carrier is, so have some idea how the antenna captures radio waves and converts them to electrical energy.

All good stuff to know.

Digital TV is broadcast in the UHF band, about 400 to 600 MHz. I believe the old UHF TV anntenas would work well. However, the digital antennas would be a bit better because the bars would be cut to confirm with the wave length of the frequencies used by the tv stations.

 

[toobfreak]

Digital TV is broadcast in the UHF band, about 400 to 600 MHz. I believe the old UHF TV anntenas would work well. However, the digital antennas would be a bit better because the bars would be cut to confirm with the wave length of the frequencies used by the tv stations.

Same difference. A UHF antenna is a UHF antenna, and the television UHF pilot frequencies run from about 470-880 MHz. They will all receive UHF television frequencies.