Tom Snyder
11-18-2002, 08:42 PM
So it's come to this... I almost feel like posting this one anonymously...
According to the coverage map (and Fox's corporate engineer) I should be able to pick up 6 digital with a rooftop antenna. Tom Sielicki posted in another thread that with a Yagi, he's able to pick up 6 digital in Germantown. I'm a little further Northwest, but with my trusty indoor RS Double Bowtie, and the leaves off the trees, I can get a "solid" signal of 27. So I'm, thinking that maybem, just maybe, something outside will lock a signal for me.
The spousal unit has said NO! to a rooftop... HOWEVER... we have some people coming over for this Sunday's Packers/Bucs game and if it's going to be Widescreen 480p, I have her permission to put one up temporarily if it's only up for the game, something I remember my dad doing when I was kid and we needed to do this to watch blacked-out home games on Chicago stations. In his case it was a pair of rabbit ears on a length of conduit.
OK, so I'm just nuts, but for all the obvious reasons, I'm willing to try just about anything.
So here's the question (and I can't belive I'm publicly admitting to even thinking about this)... If I take my Radio Shack Bow tie, and hoist it up about 10 feet higher than the crown of my house on a length of conduit, will it be able to grab enough signal to do the trick?
If that won't do it, here's my fallback position.. does anyone here have a recomendation for a low windload, directional antenna that I could hoist t5emporarily that could possibly pick up 6, and would only need to be used on selected Sunday afternoons through January? Even better does anyone have a used one they're not using that they'd be willing to loan me for a test, which I would be willing to buy from them if it worked?
Argghh.. what geek loser Fox has turned me into. :O
P.S. Of course if the game isn't widescreen, it's a moot point, and I've publicly humiliated myself for nothing. http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/ubb/wink.gif
According to the coverage map (and Fox's corporate engineer) I should be able to pick up 6 digital with a rooftop antenna. Tom Sielicki posted in another thread that with a Yagi, he's able to pick up 6 digital in Germantown. I'm a little further Northwest, but with my trusty indoor RS Double Bowtie, and the leaves off the trees, I can get a "solid" signal of 27. So I'm, thinking that maybem, just maybe, something outside will lock a signal for me.
The spousal unit has said NO! to a rooftop... HOWEVER... we have some people coming over for this Sunday's Packers/Bucs game and if it's going to be Widescreen 480p, I have her permission to put one up temporarily if it's only up for the game, something I remember my dad doing when I was kid and we needed to do this to watch blacked-out home games on Chicago stations. In his case it was a pair of rabbit ears on a length of conduit.
OK, so I'm just nuts, but for all the obvious reasons, I'm willing to try just about anything.
So here's the question (and I can't belive I'm publicly admitting to even thinking about this)... If I take my Radio Shack Bow tie, and hoist it up about 10 feet higher than the crown of my house on a length of conduit, will it be able to grab enough signal to do the trick?
If that won't do it, here's my fallback position.. does anyone here have a recomendation for a low windload, directional antenna that I could hoist t5emporarily that could possibly pick up 6, and would only need to be used on selected Sunday afternoons through January? Even better does anyone have a used one they're not using that they'd be willing to loan me for a test, which I would be willing to buy from them if it worked?
Argghh.. what geek loser Fox has turned me into. :O
P.S. Of course if the game isn't widescreen, it's a moot point, and I've publicly humiliated myself for nothing. http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/ubb/wink.gif