We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?
Many thanks,
Jackie Davidson

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:11:03 -0500, "J. Davidson"
wrote:

We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?
Many thanks,
Jackie Davidson


Just the site for you. Welcome to AntennaWeb.org

http://www.checkhd.com/aw/welcome.aspx

--
Oren

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."

Thank you very much! I sincerely appreciate it.
Jackie
Oren wrote in message
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:11:03 -0500, "J. Davidson"
wrote:

We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?
Many thanks,
Jackie Davidson


Just the site for you. Welcome to AntennaWeb.org

http://www.checkhd.com/aw/welcome.aspx

--
Oren

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody
who really loves it."

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:45:37 -0500, "J. Davidson"
wrote:

Thank you very much! I sincerely appreciate it.
Jackie

Just the site for you. Welcome to AntennaWeb.org

http://www.checkhd.com/aw/welcome.aspx

Better! The site helps identify broadcast and takes into account
mountain ranges.

You should be able to buy locally; any antenna you need for a single
TV.

Good Luck.

--
Oren

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."

Oren wrote:
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:45:37 -0500, "J. Davidson"
wrote:

Thank you very much! I sincerely appreciate it.
Jackie

Just the site for you. Welcome to AntennaWeb.org

http://www.checkhd.com/aw/welcome.aspx

Better! The site helps identify broadcast and takes into account
mountain ranges.

You should be able to buy locally; any antenna you need for a single
TV.

Good Luck.

Try cheapest solution first- rabbit ears. Radio Shack, or even local
thrift store. If all the stations you want are within 20 miles or so,
they may work well enough.

aem sends...

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:18:13 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

Oren wrote:
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:45:37 -0500, "J. Davidson"
wrote:

Thank you very much! I sincerely appreciate it.
Jackie

Just the site for you. Welcome to AntennaWeb.org

http://www.checkhd.com/aw/welcome.aspx

Better! The site helps identify broadcast and takes into account
mountain ranges.

You should be able to buy locally; any antenna you need for a single
TV.

Good Luck.

Try cheapest solution first- rabbit ears. Radio Shack, or even local
thrift store. If all the stations you want are within 20 miles or so,
they may work well enough.

Rabbit ears will even receive the local HDTV signals. :-)

--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

"aemeijers" wrote in message

Try cheapest solution first- rabbit ears. Radio Shack, or even local
thrift store. If all the stations you want are within 20 miles or so, they
may work well enough.

aem sends...

This site just confirmed why I have cable. Nearest stations to me are 28
miles, most are 40, but the ones in my state that I prefer to watch are all
over 50 miles.

We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?

Whatever anyone is selling on Craigslist

http://memphis.craigslist.org/

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:11:03 -0500, "J. Davidson"
wrote:

We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?
Many thanks,
Jackie Davidson

P&M

I presume you have a coaxial cable connector on the back of your tv?
A silver colored little thimble like thing, but not tapered, with
threads on the outside?

What I would try first is a thin piece of non-stranded (single thread)
wire, insulated if possible, with the insulation stripped off the inch
at one end, and stuff that wire into the little hole in the center of
the coaxial connector on the back of the tv. You can put it in a half
inch, or even maybe an inch if it goes that far. Although even a tiny
bit, a mm. or two, is enough to work, but it might fall out.

The wire should be as thin or thinner than the wire that sticks out of
a coaxial cable connector with the threads on the inside. You can use
one of the strands in a piece of 4-conductor phone line, for example,
or just about anything.

While commercially sold antennas are stiff and stick up, those aren't
very inportant characteristics. Stiff is only useful so that one can
put the antenna where he wants it, but I just let it run down the back
of the tv and the tv-table to the floor. Sticking up, as opposed to
dangling down is only important if the stations are far enough away
that reception is marginal, and even then one could hook the wire to
the curtains or a shelf or a brad in the wall if necessary. I'm sure
it won't hurt to wrap the last half inch of the wire once or twice
around the brad, although that half inch won't function as an antenna
anymore. (becuase it is in a circle and the induced currents in it
will be in all directions and will cancel each other out)

If the stations in Memphis are near enough reception will be ok to
great with anything although low stations like 2, 3, and 4, require a
piece of wire that is at least 3 feet long. Higher number stations
usually don't require that, but you probalby want to get channel 2
also. 30 or 40 or 50 miles is where tv reception fades away, and if
the broadcast antenna is that far away, it can matter if you are on a
hill or in a valley, even a tiny valley like I'm in. It can also
matter what floor you are on. The basement can be bad.

Finally, although SONY usually works well, after that I find that one
can't predict quality of reception by brand. I have local stations in
Baltiomre, and others in DC, and some tv's will get channels 4, 5, 7,
and 9 in DC, but most will only get 3 of them, and which 3 varies.
Others will only get 2 or 1. I have maybe tv's of all ages and brands
going through here over the last 24 years, so I think my sample is
pretty good. Neither brand nor age is a good predictor of how many DC
stations they will get, although all of them get the Baltimore
stations.

On Oct 7, 5:11 pm, "J. Davidson" wrote:
We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?
Many thanks,
Jackie Davidson


You want the best, go with Winegard, they are awesome:

http://www.winegard.com/offair/products.htm

Also consider that VHF analog broadcasts will be gone in short time,
so an antenna that favors UHF reception would be better for over the
air High Definition which is broadcast digitally in UHF. The HD8200P
should be fine if you still need good VHF reception now, and should do
outstandingly well for everything in the future and current HD
broadcasts.

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:09:39 -0700, RickH
wrote:

On Oct 7, 5:11 pm, "J. Davidson" wrote:
We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?
Many thanks,
Jackie Davidson


You want the best, go with Winegard, they are awesome:

http://www.winegard.com/offair/products.htm

Also consider that VHF analog broadcasts will be gone in short time,
so an antenna that favors UHF reception would be better for over the
air High Definition which is broadcast digitally in UHF. The HD8200P
should be fine if you still need good VHF reception now, and should do
outstandingly well for everything in the future and current HD
broadcasts.


Most of the newer TV stations around here use UHF, but there's an
interesting exception. The local ABC station broadcasts digitally on
channel 10.
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in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
-- Benjamin Franklin

On Oct 8, 10:23?am, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:09:39 -0700, RickH





wrote:
On Oct 7, 5:11 pm, "J. Davidson" wrote:
We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?
Many thanks,
Jackie Davidson

You want the best, go with Winegard, they are awesome:

http://www.winegard.com/offair/products.htm

Also consider that VHF analog broadcasts will be gone in short time,
so an antenna that favors UHF reception would be better for over the
air High Definition which is broadcast digitally in UHF. The HD8200P
should be fine if you still need good VHF reception now, and should do
outstandingly well for everything in the future and current HD
broadcasts.

Most of the newer TV stations around here use UHF, but there's an
interesting exception. The local ABC station broadcasts digitally on
channel 10.
--
78 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloydhttp://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligable. Early
in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
-- Benjamin Franklin- Hide quoted text -

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how many tvs are you watching at the same time? if its usually 4 or
less you can run a cable from one or two of the satellite receivers
add a switch with infrared remote extender and control your satellite
receiver and watch it from tv number 5

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:01:09 -0600, (Neill
Massello) wrote:

Mark Lloyd wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:09:39 -0700, RickH
wrote:

On Oct 7, 5:11 pm, "J. Davidson" wrote:
We have 4 TVs in the house connected to satellite. We have another, a
Sanyo, on which we would like to be able to watch local TV (we live near
Memphis). Can someone recommend an antenna for us?
Many thanks,
Jackie Davidson


You want the best, go with Winegard, they are awesome:

http://www.winegard.com/offair/products.htm

Also consider that VHF analog broadcasts will be gone in short time,
so an antenna that favors UHF reception would be better for over the
air High Definition which is broadcast digitally in UHF. The HD8200P
should be fine if you still need good VHF reception now, and should do
outstandingly well for everything in the future and current HD
broadcasts.


Most of the newer TV stations around here use UHF, but there's an
interesting exception. The local ABC station broadcasts digitally on
channel 10.

UHF TV channels above 51 are being phased out to accommodate cell phone
and other uses. As far as I know, all the current VHF frequencies will
remain available for DTV, and current analog VHF stations will be
allowed to switch their digital signal to their VHF allocation when
analog TV dies in 2009.

One of the stations here (NBC) broadcasts analog on 56, but the
digital version is on 22.
--
77 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligable. Early
in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
-- Benjamin Franklin