What is Reddit's opinion of Digital TV Antennas?

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Yup had that problem. First get this app. Tells you where the antennas are located for each station. Then use 2 attennas. Use a cable splitter. Point one in the direction of most of the tv stations. They are approximately south east of you. The remaining are north west. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

Antenna quality counts. Make sure it's powered.

End of problems for me. Good luck

There is an app you can put on your android phone (not sure if iphone has it but it should) called DTV Antennas. You stand by your antenna, fire up the app and it points you in the direction of the different antennas so you can dial in your antenna much more effectively.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas&hl=en

Y el link que te paso /u/Claugg? tampoco podes ver on line por youtube los noticieros?

Sino intenta poner una antena TDA (Aca tenes una app para android que te ayuda a orientarla

Tiene bastantes canales y muchos en HD. Se ve barbaro

I recommend this too: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas&hl=en

It's handy for finding the direction when you're trying to point the antenna. There's something similar for iPhones.

Put your antenna on your roof on a decently high pole.

Use an app like this to point your antenna likely most of your broadcast antennas are in one general direction with a few outliers Find a balance and edge it towards the weaker signals. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

And Definatley there are great booster amps out there. I like these simple cheap inline power injected ones hook it up to you input before you split your signal and also use a decent splitter with hdtv mhz range(low end is 54mhz high end is 804 mhz)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BN5Z2UY/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BN5Z2UY&linkCode=as2&tag=antennas04-20&linkId=XHNZKUWXMOPEDJB3

As with all over the air set ups no promises but if its there this simple set up should catch it

This app (free w/ads or paid version) works well, too. When you point the phone exactly in the direction of the station tower, the app's arrow turns green and the phone vibrates. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

Just so you know, an amp will boost more than signal it will also boost noise. If you have good clean signal, but you are splitting it to multiple TV's an AMP is great. If you are trying to boost poor signal, you will also boost anything that might be causing the interference. This is like a polished turd, its still crap. Have you tried to adjust the antenna to point more towards the station and see if that helps at all? This Android app I used worked very well at helping me turn my antenna to ensure I got the majority of the channels in my beam pattern. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas) You can look at adding another antenna and using a diplexer to combine the feeds if you need to point two directions, or look into a rotor.

I had the same issue and was able to resolve it by placing my antenna in a window that is directly facing the tower. I used this app to locate tower headings and placed the antenna accordingly: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

I'd also not that the signal can be disrupted by other power sources (lamps, TVs, etc.)

Hi! This in app I've been developing for years. It has a list of TV stations and it shows which ones are around you. It started as a way of promoting OTA TV in my country, but later I've added information about several other countries. In the US I even use FCC information (got on the fly) to draw coverage polygons and decide if you are really supposed to get that signal.

I've tried to make it look professional (I'm a hobbyist Android developer, really), but I'm not sure I've managed to. What do you think?

It's here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

(In addition to that an old version of the source code is here: https://github.com/niqueco/antenas ... I've stopped updating the github repository years ago when I thought nobody cared =) )

Thanks a lot!

Try this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

I have never seen anything like that on a phone before but maybe it'll supercharge this app? I don't think you need a geo-specific android app though. Keep in mind that you could stick a paperclip in a tv and pick up whatever channels are flowing through the air.

Cool phone!

This Android app is pretty useful for o.t.a. directional/omnidirectional antennas.

I purchased this Televes DAT BOSS LR UHF Antenna Yagi from Lowes (since amazon at the time didn't have it) and I love it! I live in the mountains of Eastern PA and I installed it in my attic, I was using one of those cheap "$35 -150 mile" antennas from a prime day sale but it sucked about 6 months into it. I did a little research and Televes is a very popular brand that is used in other countries that don't rely on cable as much. As much of an ass as this guy is, his reviews are well done it may help you Antenna Man

I also suggest using a app to pinpoint the direction I used DTV Antennas but Antennasdirect.com has one.

I also use 2 HDHRs, a Extend (for on the device transcoding) and Quattro (for when someone is watching a live channel and a recording is going on with another channel. Keeps everyone happy. I'm still worried about ATSC 3.0 but for now this works well for me and my family.

This free app works well for aiming a TV antenna> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

If you need to re-aim in the attic, this app is a tremendous help> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

Don't know if this does other countries.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas

Install the DTV Antennas app, if you just need help aiming your TV antenna.

The antenna situation is a bit tricky and requires some research. My dad had troubles with indoor antennas so I never messed around with them and went straight to an outdoor one.

I downloaded the "Digital TV Antennas" app, on IOS and Android which uses your GPS to tell you how far you are from antennas and in which direction you should point yours. I picked up this RCA antenna from HemeDepot with a 65 mile range.

Aiming it is going to be a 2 person job if you don't have a TV that you can setup near the antenna to watch the signal strength change. I had someone in front of the TV on the phone with me while I made minor adjustments after using the app to get me in the right position. The good/bad news about digital signals is that you either have a good picture or you don't have a picture at all so you don't have to worry about getting it just right like you did in the analog days.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.com.lichtmaier.antenas