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653 points thunderbong | 3 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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AlbertCory ◴[28 Jul 23 15:08 UTC] No.36907892[source]▶
You can also get a digital TV antenna (< $100) since most of them are still being broadcast, somewhere. This gives you the FULL experience of having to know when the shows are "on." /s

Of course if you live in an apartment that may not work.

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op00to ◴[28 Jul 23 15:12 UTC] No.36907989[source]▶
You do not need to spend $100. You do not need to spend $1 if you have some scrap laying around. TV antennas are super easy to build!

http://users.wfu.edu/matthews/misc/dipole.html https://www.w9dup.org/technet_files/folded_dipoles_vhf_uhf_y...

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kamranjon ◴[28 Jul 23 15:17 UTC] No.36908086[source]▶
Will this still work now that VHF and UHF are no more?
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1. op00to ◴[28 Jul 23 19:55 UTC] No.36912412[source]▶
I don’t know about outside of the US, but “HDTV” in the US is on the same old vhf and uhf bands as their analog predecessors exempting some carve outs for cellular. The antenna lengths will be the same.
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2. ansible ◴[28 Jul 23 20:32 UTC] No.36912895[source]▶
VHF has gone away in some areas, as I understand it. It is all gone in the Chicago metro area, now all HDTV is broadcast on UHF channels only. And thank goodness for that! For a while, CBS 2 Chicago was on VHF channel 12, and was limited in power. So the reception outside the city limits was rather poor, even for relatively close-in suburbs. They finally got 48.2 allocated, and that comes in much better, much further out. It was frustrating, because the other major & minor channels were already on UHF and came in fine.
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3. op00to ◴[29 Jul 23 12:13 UTC] No.36919492[source]▶
Philly has one channel on VHF LO but thankfully the transmitters are in a great location so you don’t really need a huge antenna if you’re close to the city.