Hawt So we have two tv antennas in the attic

[Valve1138]

from one of the previous owners. I only got a brief glimpse during the WAW offensive home inspection, said today I went up to take a better look while I changed the air filter in the furnace.

One antenna is setup and pointed correctly and "hooked up". The other is laying there.

What I do find funny was the fact that the coax lines were haphazardly stripped and scotch taped to a splitter being used as a combiner. Someone didn't have coax connectors to crimp on.

So I put some proper connectors on the one.

I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Prolly get a simple preamp for it too.

 

[Josh]

Homeowner coax specials are a bane of every cableco guy's day.

 

[Valve1138]

Yep. And hidden phone splices.

 

[Josh]

Yup I love finding those gems. Copper wires twisted together and electrical taped. Or wire nutted. Or fucking silver satin/stranded wire line cord used in walls.

 

[Valve1138]

Beanies!

 

[Domon]

Turn it into a directional wifi antenna, send out some cancer rays in one very specific direction

 

[fly]

Or just use it for OTA. We get awesome channels with ours...

 

[Domon]

he said he has two?

 

[Valve1138]

Or just use it for OTA. We get awesome channels with ours...

So do we. Northern Viginia, Baltimore, and DC.

between the two, pointed correctly of course, I should be able to pick up a wide swath without cross interference.

 

[Valve1138]

he said he has two?

Yeah. But only one coax up to the attic right now.

Might pull more in the spring. I want a scanner antenna up there too.

 

[Valve1138]

We get almost 2 dozen stations as it was with the shit splice. I bet we get more now.

 

[fly]

We get almost 2 dozen stations as it was with the shit splice. I bet we get more now.

I bet we're around 50. Like 20 of them are all Spanish tho.

 

[Valve1138]

I bet we're around 50. Like 20 of them are all Spanish tho.

Allegedly we're in range of 58.

I think 12 are foreign language.

 

[Duke]

Or just use it for OTA. We get awesome channels with ours...

This is going to be my major project for january. I want to have the cord cut completely once the superbowl is done.

 

[fly]

This is going to be my major project for january. I want to have the cord cut completely once the superbowl is done.

Yeah, if you have attic access, its pretty damn easy to do. Whats super nice is that every station boradcasts from the same location.

 

[Duke]

Yeah, if you have attic access, its pretty damn easy to do. Whats super nice is that every station boradcasts from the same location.

I do. So you put your antenna in your attic?

 

[Valve1138]

This is going to be my major project for january. I want to have the cord cut completely once the superbowl is done.

Kodi with Genesis, an HDHomerun and a tv backend for Kodi

 

[Jehannum]

I do. So you put your antenna in your attic?

Attic, outside, wherever you can point it at the stations you find on this map. Just make sure you ground it before it hits your TV/PVR/Linux box/farm animal.

Kodi with Genesis, an HDHomerun and a tv backend for Kodi

Or Kodi with MythTV and whatever V4L device you happen to feel like buying (just avoid things with the conexant SAA7164 chipset, their linux driver is buggy as fuck).

 

[Domon]

kodi is such a fuckin stupid name.


I know they wanted to get away from xbox media center, but they could just changed the acronym to something like Xenon Boobs Media Center or Xtreme Blast Motor Cars.

Both of those are less stupid than Kodi.

 

[Valve1138]

I do. So you put your antenna in your attic?

Check out antennaweb.org and at fool.com

Those will tell you what to get and where you need to put it. Pretty easy stuff.