Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
Jan Philips wrote:

I must have good luck with them, although I have never had satellite
and haven't had cable since.... 1984. Now it's an off air antenna
with a rotator.

You don't see those much anymore. I was in a store a couple of years
ago and there was a guy who had cable all his life, but was giving it
up for an antenna. He didn't know how an antenna setup worked.

I don't recall seeing them in HD, but Lowe's and Menards have TV
antennas. I think Menards has rotators as well.

We have satellite (DirecTV), but we still use an antenna to receive our
local PBS station's additional programming that DirecTV is not
transmitting. This includes the MHz Worldview channel, which has news
broadcasts from many countries and many foreign-language movies
(subtitled, of course) -- Italian, Norwegian, French, Icelandic, etc.
Also Australian Rules Football!

I just found a way to get one of my local PBS stations. I was really
missing it. The mountain behind me makes things tricky. It blocks a
lot of signals from the closer stations, and it plays tricks with the
stations I do receive. Some of my stations I have to turn the rotator
to a different direction than were the signal is coming from. I think
some of the signals bounce off the mountain and then to me. Actually it
helps in some ways because otherwise another mountain blocks the line of
site path to some of the channels.