[TriLUG] OT What local tv service do you use with your mythtv?

[Jimmy Dorff]

On 10/15/2010 01:56 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:
> Does anyone who's built their own antennas want to share their
> designs?  I'd love to see some.

My UHF antenna is the common "coat hanger" Hoverman UHF design, such as 
this one:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/maker_workshop_dtv_antenna_steadyca.html

Due to virtual channels in ATSC the stations "advertised" channel may no 
longer be their broadcast channel. http://www.antennaweb.org will show 
you all of your local broadcast channels, their real broadcast channel 
(RF) and their distance and direction.

For the one VHF station I wanted (ABC11), I looked up the channel info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_broadcast_television_frequencies

And entered the frequency into the 3 element yagi calculator here:
http://bfn.org/~bn589/antenna.html

My Yagi is very crude, but it works great.

-Jimmy