Let me take the time to justify what happened to us when we tried to hook up a HDTV antenna so you won't have to waste your time doing the similar thing. First of all our entire family had always wanted a HDTV. This was a chore within it's self. There must be 100 variant brands and types to determine from! So we did finally attain one that we all agreed upon.
After we had set up the TV we learned that we also had to get a HDTV antenna to be able to watch our local channels broadcasted in HD. Our first antenna we tried was purchased at the identical spot as our TV. After we built it unitedly in the garage we carried it inside and up the stairs to the 2nd level window. We lifted it out the pane and put the 17 yr old on the roof with the antenna. We utilised walkie talkies to communicate between the roof and the family room with the tv. His job was to turn the antenna in teensy increments till the signal came in.
The problem was we could only get 2 channels at a time coming in unclouded but never could we get all the channels coming in at one time. So we brought the antenna in, carried it to the garage, dissembled it and took it back to buy a bigger one and go through the complete process again. Once more on top of the roof with the 17 yr old. Twisting and turning and all the while in a rainfall storm. It wasn't that bad but still raining all the same.
This went on for nearly a total of 4 nights in the month of December during the cold and precipitation. We could never get this HDTV antenna to play so we eventually gave up. We brought the big behemoth antenna in again dissembled it and put it back in the car to return. I was happy it didn't work because it looked horrendous up there on the roof. It stuck out like a painful finger. Then we did some research on the net and found an antenna that claimed to do everything we required and the good part was it was cheaper and way way smaller.
Actually in wasn't no bigger than the size of a cooky sheet. So we purchased the HDTV antenna and brought it home. No assembly required and we put the 17yr old back on the roof with the walkie talkies again and this instance we had a communication before we even tried to alter the antenna. It was unbelievable.. we found all the channels coming in crystal clear without even trying to set the antenna in the perfect "sweet" spot that we were use to setting with the previous additional two.
Just by putting it on the roof and pointing it in the general direction where the stations were located was all that was required! Seemingly this HDTV antenna was a much higher quality antenna. If I would have known this 5 days before, I could have saved all those evenings, the poor kid on the roof and the aggrevation it took for our house to finally like HDTV!
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