"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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On Oct 24, 2:58 pm, "RogerN" wrote:
I live in Du Quoin, IL and with a tower and good antenna I can get
broadcast
channels from St Louis and should be able to reach Paducah. I was just
wondering with the Digital TV would it be worth putting up an antenna
tower
and point one antenna toward St Louis, another toward Paducah, 2 antennas
I
could switch between instead of a rotor. At least it would seem I could
get
a good selection of local channels. It's been a long time since I used TV
antennas and not sure if there is much broadcasting going on or if they
shut
transmitters down and work through cable and satellite. For what they want
for a monthly payment for TV these days it seems a new tower and antennas
are a reasonable option.

3 months without TV and I'm still alive!!! The Internet seems to have all
the local and worldwide news and I can access it anytime of day.

RogerN
\
\Over The Air TV works fine for me. I receive Boston clearly from
\southern NH on an old patched-up antenna from the 1980's, with a home-
\made UHF dipole element replacing the storm-damaged original. It's two
\6" long aluminum rods stuck into the ends of a plastic tubing
\insulator. Most of the patching was replacing rusty rivets with
\stainless steel screws.
\
\I put a USB tuner on a $100 surplus PC running Media Center to make a
\Digital Video Recorder.
\
\jsw

I bought one of those Hauppauge sp TV tuner boards for my PC and it makes
a neat DVR. I don't have media center edition so most of the neat features
like auto channel changing and the remote control doesn't work but it's
still nice for a DVR. Also nice for taking old video tapes and making
DVD's.

I'm interested in getting an economical surplus PC and dedicating it as a
media center though. I think I could buy some good antennas and have good
enough TV instead of the hassle with DN or DTV. I'm kind of interested in
trying to set it up where I have a small tower with multiple antennas aimed
at different stations and have the signals all on one cable. I'm guessing I
need notch channel filters and signal combiners, but then no rotors to
fiddle with to see what's on.

RogerN