I'm in the market for a TV antenna to be placed in our attic space. A quick search of Amazon brings up new, box-looking antennas that claim to be "2024 Best" and "1000+ miles range"

Like this: https://www.amazon.com/Release-Antenna-Digital-Ourdoor-Amplifier/dp/B0D251JCPB

Or: https://www.amazon.com/Antenna-Amplified-Channels-Strongest-TVs-38FT/dp/B0DLHDF2GJ

These don't look like any antenna I've ever seen. Is this some kind of AI-fabricated scam or real-deal, new technology that will blow my socks off?

RabbitEars: https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php?request=result&study_id=1810834

Hi friendly neightborhood antenna experts! I am looking to buy an indoor antenna and saw a thread suggesting I start out by checking out rabbitears.info to determine optimal antenna specification and setup based on my location. Could someone please help me interpret my results and suggest a product? Thank you in advance!

https://www.rabbitears.info/s/1810095

More info:

There is a West-facing window looking out at the next door apartment (15 yds away?) that I could put the antenna in.

I have tried to Google this and search reddit, but I can't seem to find an answer and/or a solution...

Is there a way to either use Android Subtitles on Plex while using Live TV?

Or, change the Plex Live TV subtitles so it's not the black bar? I've played with the settings on the app, but that does nothing. I've tried to change it on the server, but that does nothing as well.

If I record Live TV and try to view it on Plex it does the same thing, black bars. But if I view the recording on another app like GetChannels it defaults to the Android CC/subtitles.

My set up is HD Homerun -- Plex Server -- Nvidia Shield.

I have tried it on my phone (Android) Amazon Cube, PC and CwGTV... Is this one of those things that can't be changed on Plex, because of Plex reasons. Or am I missing something?

Thank you in advance!

I am located in the east end of Toronto close to the lake. I connected an indoor tv antenna and can pick up American stations transmitted from Buffalo which is great but I can't get any Canadian channels transmitted from the CN tower in Toronto. Any idea why?

This is aimed at people in Utah that can capture free OTA broadcasts. We are trying to preserve some lost media for the show "Zula Patrol" (show info: https://themoviedb.org/tv/15546-the-zula-patrol/). We really have nowhere else to turn for this (don't know anyone in Utah) so if anyone in Utah able to capture free OTA TV broadcasts is willing to help we would be very grateful.

Show airs on Utah Education Network (UEN) on December 13th, 2024 (UEN schedule: https://www.uen.org/tv/whatson/results.php?search=zula+patrol). Goal is to capture each episode aired (likely 1080i) and closed captions/subs from December 13th until they stop airing the show. Good signal/picture quality is preferred.

If you can help please msg me via chat/pm (if you wish to not make your location public) or post here

I just put assembled Televes 14883. The directors shown in the pic have metal tabs on each side of each director. Following instructions upper director bent tabs. I had to bend them back so they did not catch on inital contact but tried to make them rest on sides after. What should the tabs look like after a sucessful click in of a director? Should they rest on each side of the metal director? Red arrows point to metal tab locations.

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I am in Southern California (Orange county) and used to get ABC. A few weeks ago I stopped getting that signal and I can't get it back no matter what I do. Everything else works. Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm wondering if they're doing something to their tower.

So I'm trying to set up an indoor antenna. I go to the TV settings and I go to antenna, and it says "Indicator is available for digital broadcast only". I'm not very technologically savvy, and I don't know what to do next. I would appreciate any advice.

I'm about 20 miles from the Chicago broadcast towers and have pretty good reception with a Clearstream 4V in my attic. However, on certain days Channel 5 WMAQ shows frequent glitches on ATSC 1.0. I believe this is on RF channel 33 now. My one TV that has ATSC 3.0 is always perfect and the other channels from the same or nearby towers rarely have any problems.

I've been blaming it on airplanes causing multipath reflections but some days it seems to be too frequent for that and sometimes reception is perfect for days in spite of hearing planes flying over. I found a few similar complaints with Google, but it seemed very location dependent. Does anyone else have this problem - and have you found a solution?

Hey Folks:

Environment:

Plex Pass, running on a Windows NUC (moving to a repurposed M1 Max MacBook Pro in a few months)

Suburban Los Angeles, CA (Northeastern San Fernando Valley; the house is on a hill, so I pretty much have an unobstructed line of sight in all directions).

Viewing: via a Roku Ultra that has access to the local Plex server.

We cut the subscription cable cord years ago (although we still have coax drops at the house).

My initial thought was an HDHomerun device to feed Plex Pass, but I still need a physical antenna.

What antenna do y'all suggest in this scenario? Or, should I be approaching this differently?

Thanks!

I use an attic-mounted antenna to bring in signal from towers about 45 miles away. Mostly, the rig does well, clean uninterrupted signal, but occasionally (and this most frequently at late night) certain channels get glitchy, and the signal strength indicated by the TV abruptly goes from a steady 8 or 9 (out of 10) to 1 or 0 for a moment (and picture pixelates and sound is interrupted), and then just as quickly the signal recovers.

What’s going on? A stretch of weeks can go by without problems, then a spell of nights when the signal is glitchy. It doesn’t seem to correspond to weather like precipitation or cloudiness, but maybe other factors? Anything I might do to deal with this?

I live in a 280’ tall high rise condo building in Dallas, TX. It has 100 units on 20 floors. Everyone is streaming on AT&T Fiber.

There is a deprecated DirecTV coax infrastructure in the building. I want to light up the building with OTA utilizing the existing coax.

The DirecTV’s satellite dish is located on the roof. I’m guessing that the current DirecTV infrastructure has distribution amplifiers to send satellite signals through out the floors over coax. Right?

Is it possible to pump OTA signal over the existing DirecTV coax, If we replace the DirecTV dish with an OTA antenna?

Configuration question... I'm 99% sure I need signal amplification.
I've my inside antenna in my window in front bedroom about 20' off the ground. I'll be replacing it soon so this question is about my wiring. Perhaps my question is how to best amplify my signal.

I just rewired the whole house with good RG-6. Every room is homerunned from our main box which used to receive our cable TV service. Smart TVs in the bedroom & livingroom.

From the antenna to the TV is 5 feet, to the main box is another 15'. Signal is split before the TV and fed to the mainbox. Its then coupled to the 30' cable to living room. No other connectors. One splitter, one coupler. Signal at the living room is horrible, it freezes, picture pixilate.

What would you recommend? Pre-Amp before the splitter (1:2)? Powered splitter? Amplifier instead of coupler at the main box?

Again, the antenna feeds the upstairs TV just fine, needs positioning but otherwise fine.

RabbitEars report for whatever use it may be. I'm only looking to distribute the Green channels to my living room. Anything else is a nice-to-have once I get my new antenna.

https://www.rabbitears.info/s/1794126

New to anntennas and going back to ota since cord cutting and stream ending. Is this or the yagi next yo it on the left what I need for tv?

So I have an inexpensive RCA ANT721E (VHF High + UHF) antenna on the roof. Trying to lock onto a VHF Channel 12 signal from the south, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) away, on the flat prairies. I can lock onto both VHF and UHF channels when I swing the antenna around in the opposite direction (north), from about as far away. If I was to stack this little antenna with another identical RCA ANT721E with a splitter/combiner, what are the odds that I would be able to lock onto VHF Channel 12 while pointing the stack to the south?

Is anyone else in the Philadelphia area having trouble watching WXTF (channel 29-1,2,3,4) and WPSG (Channel 57-2, 57-3) OTA over the last few days? These channels have gone either completely dark on me, or at best are experiencing sporadic signal lock. I am still able to pick up all my other Philly and NYC channels just fine (I live in central NJ), it's only 29, 57-2, 57-3 that are suddenly experiencing this problem. I've swapped in two different TVs and two different roof antennas with the same results.

So I checked the FCC DTV database and found that WXTF is assigned to RF channel 31 and that WPSG is supposed to be transmitting on RF channel 33. However, according to the diagnostics on my TV, it appears that WTXF 29, WPSG 57-2, and WPSG 57-3 are all being picked up on RF channel 31 (572-578MHz)!

It's hard for me to believe that WPSG could be transmitting on the wrong RF channel without the station engineers or the FCC noticing, but WPSG interfering with WXTF like this could explain why my TVs are suddenly unable to receive these stations. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this, or has any ideas what may be going on.

Picked up this Stellar Labs from Amazon connected to my Sangean HD20. Any advice on one with better omni reception? I have seen a few others one being Channel Master.

https://www.rabbitears.info/s/463943 currently i have the clearstream 2max but want to upgrade so i can reliably receive the one channel that is problematic which is wsky on rf channel 13. every other channel is received without issues but wsky comes and goes and my apartment is weird where i only get a signal in one spot and have never been able to figure out why. that spot is near my window and the antenna is mounted on a pole that is zip tied to the non used radiator. i'm thinking about the clearstream 2v or the televes dinova boss mix unless there's a better recommendation.

I've been using my antenna since 2012. Have it mounted on my roof. It's a Channel Master CM-2018. From there I have the coax running down into my basement where I have the 5G Filter, and a PCT MA2-4P four way splitter/amp. Probably not the best, but I truly hate climbing on the roof and making adjustments.

I really only use my antenna so I can watch Football during the NFL season. And honestly, up till now it's been pretty solid.

But now for the last two MN Vikings games, whatever channel the game is broadcast on drops once the game starts. How and why?!

Also, I'm just getting more and more upset with the direction that OTA channels seem to be going. I used to get quite a few that were 1080i resolution, but most of them have changed to 720p and added worthless weather channels over the quality of a good 1080i station.

I could invest into a better antenna, add a pre amp at the antenna, and move my 5G Filter to that area as well, and that would be a totally reasonable ask, but I'm really starting to doubt that my investment into such a setup is worth the time/money. I currently have 1 ATSC 3.0 channel in my area, and due to the encryption, I can't watch it. Is OTA going to die out?

recently I showcased my setup to my uncle and his family and they were rather impressed by what was possible with an antenna. I want to be able to give them a solid starting point with information and recommendations, but since they live half way up a hill, with most of their "good" channels on the other side of that hill, I wanted to come here to eliminate some of that initial "guess work" and give them a relatively decent starting point with less up front "trial and error" here is a rabbit ears report from their general location: https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php?request=result&study_id=1502571

So I live In the bottom floor of apartments facing south, and the nearest towers are to the north. I have a clearstream 2 max outside on a mast. It's probably 6 feet above ground level. And there's an apartment building blocking those towers and I have to rely on reflected signal I think. And I only get 7 channels. How can i improve my setup to recieve more since there's an apartment building obstructing the signal?

Hoping for some additional channels but still stuck at 13-14

Towers are at about 90 degrees from each other and 18 miles away.

Still getting odd pixelation on 1 channel so can't really say of this antenna is any better than my old Channel Master omni directional.

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Edit: added signal report

Edit 2: RG6 quadshield from antenna in attic (75ft) into Square D whole home surge protector and another 15ft run to Tablo receiver.

I do have a ChannelMaster LTE/5G filter in the Tablo that coax connects to. I have a few LTE/5G towers within 5-10 km radius from my home.

I had started with the same build with 12g but realized I need 6g so started over. Here is the 6g so far. Going to build a 22x22in reflector for it as well. Where he lives, there are a ton of UHF channels and ch12 VHF is close and has the football so hoping he can grab that as well. There is alot of cochanneling going on in his location which is why I ditched the omni horizontal loop idea for a more directional biquad. Just sharing as I'm proud even with the mess solder. Love building antennas.

Amy advice?

Does anyone have any information on WYCI from the Saranac Lake/Plattsburgh NY? The channel should be broadcasting METV Toons on 40.7 and 26.7 but instead is broadcasting “The 365” on those channels which is also broadcast on 40.6 and 26.6. The guide and program information shows everything for Metv toons but is just broadcasting the wrong channel. I have included a picture as an example and hoping to see if anyone else has any insight on this or has experienced this before with another station.

I am looking to get a indoor TV antenna for my smart TV so I can watch TV with no Internet,and I cannot get a outdoor TV antenna because my Stepmom does not want anything on the roof so I am wondering if I can get away with an amplified indoor TV antenna to get the channels for Edmonton Alberta Canada,I live 30 minutes away from Edmonton in a small town named Bon Accord