[mythtv-users] OTA and attic antenna

[Bert Haskins]

On 10/03/2012 12:42 PM, Jim Morton wrote:
>
> On 10/3/2012 12:14 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
>> I am considering moving from cable to OTA and was wondering if any on 
>> this list would have any recommendations for an attic antenna.
>>
>> All of my PC TVCards are analog and it's time to move to digital. I 
>> am hoping to go with OTA with an attic antenna running to HDHomeRun 
>> (my linux box only has PCI slots, so this seems the best option) with 
>> MythTV.
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marc
> You can greatly increase your chances of being happy with an antenna
> by mounting it outdoors, the higher the better.
>
> Placing it in an attic is really limiting to the signal. You might be 
> ok with
> that if you have a really great signal to start with. I am about 15 
> miles from
> most transmitters and found that in the attic just wouldn't work well 
> enough
> for me.
>
On a family get together my brother-in-law was showing me his antenna.
The low-band section was about half ( or even less ) that of anything I 
had seen before.
He claims to get excellent reception on low-band channels that I would 
expect to require
the big wide wind catcher models which only seem to make it through a 
few storms.
I would love to go to OTA to get away from the crappy!!! sound that 
results from the
over compression of my expensive cable system but the stopper has always 
been
the problems that come from the wide low-band antenna where all of my 
favorite
shows just happen to reside.
He did not know the brand of the antenna because it was professionally 
installed.
Does anyone know what he is using?
Thanks,
    Bert