Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

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Getting a lifetime Plex pass on sale years ago was one of my better financial decisions.
 
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Kharzette

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Haus said:
Yes, they build antennas to do just that. I'm about to be trying one of them :


Will probably be a couple weeks before I test it out as it's in line behind a lot of other "need to prioritize" household projects.
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I ended up getting this one. I'll unbox it tomorrow. The box is BIG!

I might end up trying to put it in the attic unless it looks super extra sturdy.
 
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I ended up getting this one. I'll unbox it tomorrow. The box is BIG!

I might end up trying to put it in the attic unless it looks super extra sturdy.
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I’m not sure if you’re looking for anything else, but we use this at home for our antenna on a couple of TVs, and phones while in bed, in the house (there’s been a couple of early AM thunderstorms and watching off the antenna on my phone was easier than streaming from the channels website). It works well and kept me from having to run anything but a cable to the switch.

We don’t use the DVR portion much so I can’t really speak to that. We were using it for Amazing Race or something when our Paramount+ sub got dropped from canceling Cable. It worked well enough.

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Kharzette

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The antenna is much sturdier than the chinese crap I bought last time. Is it 70mph oklahoma winds sturdy? I dunno yet. I think I need to see it in the wind and see how much it catches the wind to decide.

It didn't come with a pole so I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to find one and where I'm going to put it.
 
Kharzette

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Well I did an unscientific test and just held one of the radar dish pieces up in a strong wind and it seemed to be quite slippery, so I put it on the house today. Until I got it put together I didn't really understand how it you could aim the 2 seperate lobes, but it works well.

We are getting all the channels from both directions. There's 61 in all, but some channels are doubled up and some are tripled as we are getting stations from 3 different spots.

The westerly direction has 14ish and 20ish mile away towers with the easterly being 14. With the old shitty antenna we never got the further westerly channels.

I overtightened one of the nuts and broke the bolt, and lost a couple wingnuts stumbling around on the roof so I still need to find some replacement bits and go back up and tighten everything. It got dark by the time we had it all together.

I hope the wind doesn't destroy it. I thought about trying the attic. I had tested it at ground floor level and got nothing from it, so I figured higher is better.
 
Kharzette

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Well it has been a couple weeks and we've had a few really nasty storms and it hasn't budged at all. I still don't even have it secured properly as I've not gotten around to getting to a hardware store to get the wingnuts I'm missing.

The only time the signal seems to glitch a bit is early morning with the eastern channels that are direclty towards the sun, and then only slightly.
 
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