What are Redmere cables?
You might be looking at our Redmere cables and saying, What’s so special about Redmere cables? Isn’t that just another way to make me spend money? It’s so much more. We wouldn’t blame you for thinking that…
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Find out what’s happening to your local stations with this tool
A few days ago I dropped the bomb on antenna users when I told them that the FCC was reassigning about 1,000 stations. After a historic, three year process, the FCC will be re-allocating UHF channels 37-51…
Do you need an antenna rotator?
Antennas are great but… they don’t get signals from every direction. The most powerful antennas, the most efficient ones, are also the ones that are the most directional. If you live far away from the broadcast…
FCC concludes historic spectrum auction, 1,000 stations affected
At a glance: Over 1,000 stations move 33 stations go off the air $10 billion paid to broadcasters $20 billion collected in new spectrum licenses 15 TV channels (37-51) to be converted to cell data…
It’s finally warming up… time to go out and do some inspections
It seems like every winter gets a little weirder. For folks up north, it looked like an exceedingly dry winter until the most recent snowpocalypse covered us all in the white stuff and caused major havoc….
Can you use a coat hanger as an antenna?
Why spend a ton of money for an antenna when you can use a couple of coat hangers and a 2×4? That’s the question being posed at several sites, including ours. We put our very own…
Is laminated aluminum better for antennas?
If you want an antenna to last a lifetime, you want it to be solidly made. Our Televes antennas are designed to the highest standards of quality and should last you decades if they’re properly mounted…
Problems with your DIGIAIR-PRO-ATSC? Upgrade the firmware
Our Solid Signal DigiAir-Pro-ATSC is a great, full featured antenna meter that not only shows signal strength but also several different measurements that are more important like bit error rate and signal to noise ratio. These…
Why can’t you put your dish on top of the TV?
Well you could, but you’d have to put the TV on the roof. The point is, you can’t have a dish inside the house. Back when the TV in this picture was considered “high tech,” we…
DISH blacks out 33 stations in Hearst fee fight
Seems to come up like clockwork. Just a few months after DIRECTV was forced to black out Hearst stations due to a conflict dispute, the same stations have disappeared for DISH viewers. Luckily, those channel blackouts seem to…
“TBD” Network launches on Sinclair stations
To Be Determined? Sinclair Media, one of the nation’s largest operators of over-the-air television stations, has launched a new network for their viewers across the country. It’s called “TBD,” which is old-school business slang for “to…
Virtual vs. Real Channels
With the change to DTV we ended up with “Virtual” Channels what are these? The “real” channels are the channels the TV stations are using to transmit on. Back before HDTV, the channel number told us…
Simple Dipole and Bow Tie Antennas
Let’s go over a few things about dipole antennas that I have picked up while being an amateur radio operator. I will start with what is known and go from there. I will then apply…
SOUND OFF AND WIN: What sports should be on TV (that aren’t)?
Here’s a question for you… Considering all the sports available on DISH and DIRECTV, what are they missing? Do you wish there was a better source for domestic lacrosse, or year-round curling? There are so…
The Porcupine Antenna
This antenna was an extension of an idea I had back in 2002, and had an article published about the precursor antenna in Popular Communications, in January 2003: “Phil’s Easy Way To Improve Your UHF TV Reception.”…