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re: Digital TV antennas in Baton Rouge
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:06 pm to SpqrTiger
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:06 pm to SpqrTiger
I'm curious about this as well. Haven't messed with OTA in a long time, probably going back to when I had Direct TV instead of Cox cable.
Where I live, I do remember having trouble getting all local channels, even with an old outdoor antenna stuffed into the attic. It was that way at my parents' house too, and their antenna was outdoors. You could get most, but couldn't get both WAFB and WBRZ at the same time, you had to rotate the antenna to get one or the other.
I do remember that this was after the change to digital, as I remember there being all sorts of 'secondary' channels attached to the big ones. 12.1, 12.2, etc.
Indoor, powered antennas also had issues. I didn't have big flat things, I had the little post towers that you'd plug in.
I think one of my problems is that my house faces East, and there are lots of trees and not a lot of big windows in the back (facing West). So for the guy who says "put in a window facing Brusly", I can't really do that.
It was bad enough that I eventually went to Cox, and never bothered to look again. If there is somehow a fix now, I'd be interested in learning it.
Where I live, I do remember having trouble getting all local channels, even with an old outdoor antenna stuffed into the attic. It was that way at my parents' house too, and their antenna was outdoors. You could get most, but couldn't get both WAFB and WBRZ at the same time, you had to rotate the antenna to get one or the other.
I do remember that this was after the change to digital, as I remember there being all sorts of 'secondary' channels attached to the big ones. 12.1, 12.2, etc.
Indoor, powered antennas also had issues. I didn't have big flat things, I had the little post towers that you'd plug in.
I think one of my problems is that my house faces East, and there are lots of trees and not a lot of big windows in the back (facing West). So for the guy who says "put in a window facing Brusly", I can't really do that.
It was bad enough that I eventually went to Cox, and never bothered to look again. If there is somehow a fix now, I'd be interested in learning it.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 4:10 pm to Scoob
This week I erected a GE antenna ($45 from Amazon) about 12-14 feet above corner of house. Pointed it west south west because I am off ONeal in BR. So far catching about 40 channels with very good strength. Ready for the storms and cable outages.
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