[mythtv-users] (US) Goodbye to unencrypted QAM...

[David Brodbeck]

Johnny wrote:
>> Can you suggest a good indoor antenna?  I assumed anything I bought for
>> indoor use would just be a fancier version of rabbit ears.
>>
>> Antennaweb says I need a "VHF blue" antenna, which they define as a medium
>> outdoor directional antenna with a preamp.
> 
> You may want to check out www.tvfool.com also. I find their feedback
> to be much more helpful. They give you a nice little map (indicating
> directions for each channel) and a color coded list of channels you
> can receive, where the colors correlate with laymen terms like "indoor
> set-top antenna", "attic mounted antenna", etc.

Yeah, I checked them out, too.  What I've found is that I can get 
anything they show as "LOS" (line of sight) but their calculations that 
use other propagation modes seem to be overly optimistic.  The PBS 
station would have to get to me via 2-edge diffraction.  It's actually 
not much farther from me than the stations I can get, and according to 
TV Fool there should be plenty of signal, but there's terrain in the way.