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To: aft_lizard
So ... the box I have and this contraption is NOT sufficient?

I MUST purchase a powered antenna?

(I have another TV that I bought a digital (powered) antenna and it works so-so ... perhaps because I am not using an outside, (high ?) antenna in my rural SW Pa. location?)

I get 5 channels .. 7.1, 7.2 ... 9,1, 9.2 and 9.3

7 posted on 07/19/2009 5:03:46 PM PDT by knarf
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To: knarf

Not saying you will have to buy a new antenna just saying you might have too. I say build it and see if it works. They are great to put behind wall mounted TV’s.


9 posted on 07/19/2009 5:11:18 PM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: knarf
It depends on how far away your TV station is and how much power they transmit. Here are a couple websites that might help.

Antenna Web

TV Fool

10 posted on 07/19/2009 5:13:43 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (As a child Obama was rejected from Little League because of lack of a birth certificate.)
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To: knarf

My TV set has a knob that I pull out to turn the set on and push in to turn it off. Volume is controlled with a twist of the knob.

After the June switch to digital, with the roof antenna for my apartment complex I got only two English language stations, and the antenna will not be upgraded.

My TV has rabbit ears. I put a wire hanger around the rabbit ears and a small unbent paper clip into the antenna plug on the converter box. I adjusted the paper clip so that it touches the wire hanger, and, voila, I now get the regular seven English channels I did before the original digital switch, plus a few more English channels, as well as some Spanish channels.


15 posted on 07/19/2009 6:59:05 PM PDT by clockwise
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