Another advantage of over the air digital reception is it isn’t compressed.
Most apartments and condo groups will not put up to much of a fight if you want
to put up an antenna or dish any more. Back when the communications act was
first passed I had an home owners association go to war with me about putting
up an antenna. I was originally going to put up a small 8 element Channel
Master, nothing nuts and in a fixed position since all the towers I wanted to
hit were in the same place in San Francisco. They kept threatening me and
trying to tell me what to do which if you haven’t guessed doesn’t really work
with me and because I was a ham operator I went all PRB1 on them and put up a
100 foot tower with individual beam antennas that required an industrial
rotator. I also put lights on the top and became active in one of the local
civil preparedness groups. I had the outside of my property looking like an
NSA listening post. I also put in a 20 foot dish that I ended up building a
home brew radio telescope out of. I made sure the dish blocked out the sun if
I pointed it correctly to my neighbor’s back yard and pool because he was the
association president. I was going to put solar panels in on top of that which
in California is the only justification you can use to cut down trees and
totally rip out all the landscaping that would have blocked my sun exposure but
they caved first. Ever since that time my property managers have been more
than accommodating of the very little roof space I’ve needed which in the end
accounted for an 18 inch dish and a small panel antenna for fixed wireless.
Good times!
One thing you might look at are some of the better indoor antennas.
You don’t need to mount anything and some come with preamps built in. The good
news with digital signals you don’t need perfect reception like you do with
analog. As long as you’re getting the data stream above the noise level
sufficiently things will work just fine. No ghosting or multi path to worry
about. You might have a small device you put in a window or if you go whole
hog something you sit in your attic and you can use RF splitters to drop the
signal in to your existing dish wiring so you won’t have to pull new wire.
They make some models that strap on to your existing dish install and are
barely visible. Even the good ol rabbit ears will work in many settings. Good
luck
> On Dec 9, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That works, depending on the terrain, your location, and the location of the
> stations you need to get. I live close to all of the stations supposedly, but
> can't get CVS for love or money, unless of course, maybe if I had an outside
> antenna way up on the roof. Not going to happen.
> Mary
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 9, 2016, at 10:35 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Just get an ota like the mobileaf
>>> On Dec 8, 2016, at 8:48 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just to add to what Clifton said, if the channels in your area are not
>>> directly owned by the network, you probably won't get them. For instance,
>>> none of our local channels are available.
>>> Mary
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Dec 8, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Kliphton Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> it all depends on your region. I live in the tampa FL area, and I get
>>>> fox, and that is it. Although there are some NBC shows that are on demand
>>>> like chicago fire, chicago PD, and some ABC shows too. CBS is rumored to
>>>> being close to signing on, but who knows when that will happen
>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 8, 2016, at 8:47 PM, David Tanner <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know how to get access to your local channels in the area
>>>>> where you live using DIRECTV NOW question
>>>>>
>>>>> David Tanner
>>>>>
>>>>> From my iPhone 6 S
>>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 8, 2016, at 6:19 AM, Kliphton Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, got the live chat to work on the direct TV now support page. The
>>>>>>> rep told me that they didn’t know how to get voiceover to work with
>>>>>>> there app, and I told them there was an entire section specifically for
>>>>>>> this. The rep flat out ignored that comment. Also said there is no
>>>>>>> phone number, they are only a streaming service, and live chat is the
>>>>>>> only way to talk to them. He did give me a link to access the channel
>>>>>>> lineups, and told me they would attempt to fix the voiceover issues in
>>>>>>> the future. Like I have stated before, the app is very usable, once
>>>>>>> you get use to it. On another note, direct TV now app now has a 72
>>>>>>> hour rewind option on select channels. I know sling TV had this, and
>>>>>>> it worked well, I just saw this update last night, or this morning,
>>>>>>> whatever time you consider night and day, so I haven’t had a chance to
>>>>>>> try it out yet. If anyone wants to see the live chat conversation let
>>>>>>> me know, I had the transcript emailed to me.
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