re: Turning the Antenna When the Picture Got Fuzzy

Posted by ruzil

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:42 am to tonydtigr

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There was some local New Orleans based Popeye program we used to watch that had an audience of kids as well.

Popeye and pals.

Posted by Titus Pullo

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:43 am to HaveMercy

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'member getting one of those fancy boxes that was supposed to turn the antenna remotely;

Grandparents had this.

At my place I just remember having the black box with he turn dialdor HBO that seemed to have a thousand #s/channels.

Posted by High C

viewing the fall....

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:00 am to Titus Pullo

We usually only got 2 and 9. Watching NBC shows was a pipe dream. In order to get 33 the barometric pressure had to be exactly 30.02, temperature 78 degrees, humidity 84 percent, and wind at 7 mph, all at the same time. When that happened, though, you had a chance to see at least a part of the AFC game that Sunday. Also, second on the pipe wrench as the turning tool.

Posted by cajunangelle

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:01 am to HaveMercy

This indeed happened.

as well as this

people were cheap they would lose their knobs and do this and die before buying a new TV. TVs were VERY expensive tho...

here is todays version of going offline to ROKU after getting their 300 dollar TWC bill

This post was edited on 1/14/17 at 11:03 am

Posted by I B Freeman

Member since Oct 2009

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:05 am to cajunangelle

I still have an antenna on my house that has not been used in decades BUT I did use it after Katrina and I do want to get it going again to see how many digital signals I can get now.

Posted by tonydtigr

Beautiful Downtown Glenn Springs,Tx

Member since Nov 2011

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:08 am to High C

Yeah, good reception was definitely very weather related. Did ya'll ever see the slight double images at times that we referred to as ghosts? It may have just been us that called the double image that.

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Posted by Cdawg

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:10 am to East Coast Band

We had the remote turner but before that I remember just watching stations out of NO. However, I do remember that day we got the UHF antenna and I started picking up channel 26 out of new orleans. happy days it was like cable tv to me. And then shortly after channel 38 came on the air.

Posted by cajunangelle

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:14 am to Spankum

LINK

some youtubers saying their was sublimenal messages in some sign offs. don't discount this. my father was a physicist spook that designed spy sats; and spoke of the sublimenal messages tested in a BELKS dept store to try to stop employee theft. And the shooting popcorn in movie theaters.

Posted by The Torch

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:17 am to HaveMercy

We always did this at my grandparent's house, it was part of life and no one knew better.

We still have an antenna at our lake house but we are fancy now, we have the dial you turn inside which spins the antenna.

Posted by cajunangelle

Member since Oct 2012

156918 posts

Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:20 am to I B Freeman

since going digital nationwide. your local cable company has to provide you a small box (it was free) before you could pick up any antenna stations. Or go to best buy and get Roku. You can stream all online with wifi and watch TV.

Posted by cajunangelle

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:21 am to The Torch

I will never forget my granmas black rotary phone in DT NOLA. We would sneak as kids and listen to the party line.

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Posted by 6R12

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:58 am to HaveMercy

It was a 3-4 team job. Me on the roof, dad at tv, mom or sibling hollering from the window. It would have been a kodak moment on video.

Posted by HaveMercy

Member since Dec 2014

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 12:00 pm to Twenty 49

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He also had a satellite receiver big enough to run a NASA mission

After I left for college my Dad remarried and got one of these satellite dishes for my stepmom.
Had to keep the antenna for our housekeeper's TV because she said that the government used those satellite dishes to spy on people. Yep.

Posted by Hangover Haven

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 12:58 pm to HaveMercy

We still use an antenna with a rotor at the camp.. It's awesome.. We get channels from Biloxi and New Orleans...

This post was edited on 1/14/17 at 12:59 pm

Posted by Darth_Vader

A galaxy far, far away

Member since Dec 2011

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 1:27 pm to HaveMercy

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And by antenna I mean the one on the outside of the house.

Any of you old country folk remember having to do this? That thread about the Friday night TV shows got me hopping down memory lane and I couldn't remember 70s TV without somebody having to go out and turn the antenna in bad weather.
I 'member getting one of those fancy boxes that was supposed to turn the antenna remotely; but they never worked. Ah, the good 'ol days!!

PS my kids don't believe this was something that actually happened - they think it's a rural legend like walking 2 miles in the snow uphill both ways.

From as far back as I can remember until I graduated HS and joined the army, having to go out and turn the antenna was just a part of every day life. Turn it one way and you'd get ABC & NBC. Turn it another way and you'd get CBS. Those were our only three options other than PBS.

This post was edited on 1/14/17 at 1:29 pm