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welcome back friends and family of my audience greetings if you've never watched any of my videos ever my name is Eric and I'm an FCC licensed amateur radio operator my youtube channel is called ham radio concepts so you can think I do videos on ham radio today is a big day for me I am now a former telecommunications installer internet cable and satellite now I've taken my ham radio experience my telecommunications experience put them together to further my career to bigger and better things can't say where I'm going but I can tell you where I've been the ride has been fun but it's time to move on now I could take my ham radio experience my cable experience put the two together in a video to educate you on how you can take your knowledge and avoid paying cable companies thousands of dollars a year for TV that you can get for free legally with an antenna a little bit of knowledge you can put that extra money back in your pocket and avoid paying all those fees with free over-the-air HD TV in this video I hope you watch every single minute to get all the information I put a lot of effort into it a little bit of where it came from a little bit of how it works and how to set it up for your optimal experience you won't be sorry subscribe leave a thumbs up and comment after this video let me know what you think it's a date I remember well June 12 2009 the Congress mandated the analog-to-digital transition in the United States for all television broadcasting stations that were broadcasting analog to ceased their programming no later than 11:59 p.m. local that day it was the most significant advancement of television technology since color TV was introduced it really was but it started a y2k in 2009 people thought their TV they've watched for years with a snowy picture and rabbit ears was gonna disappear unless they spent a lot of money people were told their TV was garbage and their antennas would no longer work unless they bought new antennas they were ill-informed but the people that couldn't afford to accommodate or the people that didn't want to let go of their analog Sony TV there was a federally sponsored DTV converter box coupon program which I actually took advantage of each household was allotted two free converter boxes to accommodate that old analog TV to accept the switch to digital you either mailed it in or you went online and filled out your information and it was sending it to coupons and you can go to a local store that was participating or it would ship you the boxes and I still have those two boxes I'll show you those later in the video but now we've come so far since then this was the beginning of when it happened now we've come so far where we have manufacturers that manufacture really good antennas and we have all TV's after 2007 are compatible with a built-in tuner if it's a flat screen manufacturer 2007 or later the goal here in this video is to enlighten you and show you kind of what the big deal was to go to digital why did they do it besides the fact that the transmitter sites can lower their power because digital is more efficient but there was also more content more channels a better picture Full HD sometimes better than your cable you got now because it's not as compressed it's a perfect picture for free and that's the other thing I want to show you is how to set it up and to avoid paying these cable companies enormous amounts of money I was an installer I did install services for a living and I watched people struggle and say you know I hate to do this but I can't afford it but this is the only option I have and you're wrong cut the cord put that money back in your pocket for other toys or hobbies or to feed your kids or to survive put that money in your pocket and avoid paying these cable companies for TV you can get for free in Full HD so a little Anatomy on how this analog to digital conversion happens what makes it so much better why did they do it what does it mean when it went analog to digital what are the benefits well hopefully if you're a subscriber to my current channel you'll understand this perfect perfect sense if you're a tech newbie don't worry I'm not gonna leave in the dark I'm gonna explain this as basic as I can so you have an understanding on what this means and how it works now you have an HDTV and you want to receive over-the-air broadcasting free from a television station of course you're going to need an antenna right and we're going to talk about indoor versus outdoor antennas coax connecting them amplifiers and more but a big misconception is is my antenna digital and they think that it has to be labeled a digital antenna but in fact the antenna in theory just receives signals unless it's got a bunch of active electronics inside this antenna it's still an antenna but there is a big huge difference with my experience on a poorly manufactured antenna versus a really good antenna it's got to be calibrated in tune properly to pick up all those stations a simple piece of wire in the air is an antenna but it will not pick up these frequencies for these TV stations what actually changed in this process was the signal coming off of the tower which went digital and what that means well let me explain in the past years years until 2009 channel 25 for example is local to me and that's a ABC channel local to me and West Palm Beach it for years was an analog signal passing nothing more than traditional audio and video over a six megahertz bandwidth and for the non-technical people that pretty much picture a one lane highway you could fit one car in that one at one time okay now when they went digital what they actually did digital can occupy less bandwidth so they can fit multiple channels in the same one-lane Road so basically they made the cars thinner fitting more cars on the same one lane road now with that digital they call it digital sub-bands so in my situation 25 local here has five digital sub bands dot 1.2.3.4 dot five certain towers across the country may only have two or three but you can see that they could fit multiple channels in the same six megahertz bandwidth or that one lane road and with it going digital that means it's now digital data passing what everything runs on nowadays back to the very basic binary ones and zeros on and off digital data is binary even back to the very beginning of computers transistors came out and they were operating on binary so you could fit more channels in the same bandwidth and with the binary and the digital you can also fit data in there like electronic program guide and station information that's called multi casting multi casting so you're casting multiple channels or multiple network traffic on the same bandwidth and that's where you get the digital sub-channels so you ask why did they do that what's the difference you would think a wider channel would be better right not necessarily when it comes digital they can narrow a lot more into a little stream and it'd be ten times better so what is this benefit to the people and the station owners and the content providers well instead of having five channels here to broadcast five different Channel 25 streams to one antenna and putting up more antennas across the country they can fit one antenna and they can fit multiple streams to your TV set without having to add additional transmitters they can do it off one transmitter and the same thing happened with ham radio now if you're not a ham radio person this may not make sense to you but in the past we used analog traditional analog voice communications on various different modes and frequencies now when digital started approaching for the users that follow me DM Rd star and system fusion basically they split that same let's call this twelve and a half kilohertz of signal they split it and now you can do voice and half of it and data in the other half so they can do your voice traffic for talking and at the same time you can do digital data for GPS coordinates call signs and more all on that same path so ham radio and over-the-air broadcast TV are running about the same theory here when it comes from analog to digital now in this video I'll be showing the tools and supplies I got from the supplier that I used antennas direct comm I've purchased from them in the past before I even had a youtube channel and I thought this is the best place where you need to go and get the stuff the antenna that I have said we have a couple antennas an indoor and outdoor antenna this is by far of all my experience the best outdoor antenna you can buy this has the most range the most gain and we'll pull in every station that's possible from your area we're going to set this up explain it unbox it show you how to mount it but then they also have stuff like mast mounted preamplifiers that you can they call their system the juice the amplifiers for output HDTV distribution amplifiers to wire it to all four rooms and not have so much loss a powered splitter and several units are available on their site they also have different mounts and different accessories that you can purchase to mount your antenna for your area and you're on your Eve and your attic or wherever picked up one of these and we also have a pull mount we're going to use on the side of my from this house here now the indoor antenna here will show you the difference between indoor and outdoor but what I really want to stress is this is going to be cool we check this out this is the clear stream TV this unit here allows you to take your wireless or your over-the-air HDTV and stream it through wireless devices on your home Wi-Fi like your smartphone your tablet your Roku player pause rewind and fast-forward live TV you won't have to have your DVR from the cable company anymore they have all the supplies at antennas to write comm this site is in the description for the link and we're going to go through the site and show you how cool is on their site to locate exactly what you need for your zip code so I'm not my friend's house he said Eric I want to go to antenna TV but and cut the cable from my current provider but I don't really understand what I need to do and I said great this would be a perfect opportunity to make a video about it so what we're gonna do here is we're going to use this TV in his living room and the satellite boxes down there so we're going to show you the basics on two different examples his house is pre-wired with a smart panel as all new houses pretty much are if you get that option and let me show you what that looks like this is what you call a smart panel and this has all the home wiring to distribute throughout your home now you may not have something as elaborate as this it may look like this something that an average house would have what just wires outside in a box enclosure and you can feed it all out there but in this situation we have a smart panel so here's where all the cable connections are and one of these goes outside so we're going to mount the antenna outside and we're going to feed the signal in to the connections here and distribute it to the different TVs and I'll try to explain that as easy as I can don't be scared on how this looks basically in a nutshell your signal is coming from outside it's coming in here and it's distributing through your home so what we're doing is replacing the satellite feed from outside with the antenna and it's coming in to the same panel and distributing to the same TVs so we're going to be mounting the antenna today on this side of the house and the station's which you can find on several websites or the clear stream website that'll show you exactly which way the stations are the station's I'm looking for are going to be to the north west and the south from here now the satellite here the feed is going right to that cable connector there and that's where it's entering the home so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna disconnect the satellite feed and connect my antenna right there the same principle is happening in every situation either your satellite or your Comcast is coming from outside of the home and going in so what you're going to do is replace that source with the antenna so we're going to mount the antenna on this side let me show you about that outdoor antenna so the instructions are pretty clear that come with it colored Illustrated pictures and if you're not getting it with the instructions that are included you can go on their site and they have some instruction assembly as well so basically how this works this is a they call it an eight-day antenna and what you're seeing here if you're one of my ham operator followers you might see the similarity here so in the box comes two sets like this okay essentially it's going to go together like this alright and what you have here is this is the fort this is called bowtie design there's four of them here for UHF and they're combined together there so they're basically stacked all connected all the way through and this is mounted onto your reflector so if you're familiar with yagi antenna is an amateur radio you have a reflector than the driven element this is kind of a similar but for a different frequency if you have one there then you're going to have another one once you put this together and in the middle you have a combiner now the combiner is going to take one coax from this side it's gonna take one coax from this side and it combines them together to one feet so now what you could do is have two of these and face opposite directions or you can essentially really want to face them in the same direction both of them facing north both of them facing south but you can swivel them one direction this way one direction this way and accommodate for several locations of antenna broadcasting stations with tenna but we're gonna finish putting this together it does come with all kinds of zip ties and hardware to mount this together pretty easy to set up it does come with coax jumpers to go from the antennas to the combiner we're going to talk about coax shortly so let me get this finished and I'll show you what the finished product looks like so now the finished product I have to just snug up the bolts here but I have both of them here I have the combiner here and that's gonna get tightened up once I mount that on the mat here that'll pull the combiner tight I didn't put the zip ties on yet but it was only about 15 minutes to set this thing up and make sure it was right now like I said you could take this and turn it like this if you wanted to face it one way in the other although your maximum gain is going to be phased exactly like this so you're having two antennas facing the exact same direction you will still get antenna signals off the back side of this the front of this is where the receiving signal is anything that passes through and hits the reflector it kind of you know the reflector keeps a signal so that you have a front and a back now if you turn it this way again you're facing right now it would be West but you'd still get signals off the backside if they were close enough so you don't have to have one from north and one for south if you're in the middle of two strong signals you'll also get signals from the side but really this is directional it does receive from this side and also you can notice the the way this is constructed if you're familiar with antennas there's a spacing that's very crucial between each element and the elements and the reflector so there is a technology here and a manufactured process to make this thing optimal it's not just thrown together and that's how in TV antennas work let's talk about coax for a second because you're going to need coax cable to connect this antenna now the difference between coax I have a couple different pieces here there's a big difference you want to make sure you use rg6 not rg59 rg59 is very thin and it it's not as good of a quality cable for this kind of application same thing goes with ham radio the better the coax the better the signals are less lost that's what you're after is less loss to get maximum now it helps to have good compression fittings with a good tool and a good stripper you want to stay away from the crimp type at Radio Shack or Home Depot and the gold ones if they say gold-plated they're no good I can tell you from experience as an installer for years a gold barrel or a gold fitting that was crimped on will always cause a TV to pixelate when it's digital so this kind of coax here is what's called rg6 quad shield and the quad shield means you know you have an extra layer of foil here okay you can see me peel that back you have an extra layer of foil and that's supposed to shield it twice as good because now you have the braid here for shielding the thing about this is this is not solid copper conductor in the middle this is copper clad steel so copper clad steel is not as good as something as solid copper but a compression fitting this will do way better than standard rg59 cable anyways a regular compression tool like that is really difference in loss between this and a crimp on fitting you want to make sure your stinger is not too long if it is you want to cut that off well I don't have cutters here but you want to make sure that stinger is about flush with the top of this connector believing guys I've done this for years I know now another type of cable would be something that a lot of satellite companies use and that is not quad shield but it's solid copper okay now the difference with this is you have your braiding around here like this but this right here is solid copper that can carries power a lot better and also it also has a less loss when you're talking about solid copper versus copper clad steel and the same thing a good compression tool fits right on there nice alright it's worth picking one of these up online I got this on Amazon it's called data shark link is in the description you want to buy that but that's it now barrels the same thing this is an orange barrel this is a blue barrel and there is actually a difference Direct TV uses orange because that barrel is swept frequency wise up to three gigahertz this will pass up to three gigahertz of frequency now you're not going to be seeing 3 Giga Hertz on antenna so maybe a little overkill this one here is what the standard cable company uses that is up to 2 gigahertz so Comcast or other cable companies that don't use up that way they use a barrel with a clear insert and that's only swept to 1 gigahertz 1,000 megahertz so a good barrel is definitely a big improvement and if you're doing any outside installations you want to make sure you have the rubber boots on here that way it keeps moisture out when you're connecting outside if you live on the beach and it's salty the rubber boots will definitely keep the corrosion out of the connectors for a long period of time now if you buy premade cable from the store premade they may have something that looks like this now this is okay this is says right on here rg6 and it does have some some sort of factory made crimp on ends these are compression fittings these are perfectly well but don't go to the store and buy premade rg59 that's not going to be good for you even if you buy a 50 foot roll from cop from RadioShack or Walmart with the gold ends on it and it's supposed to be the best there is and the best that ever will be stay away from it because it will give you degraded signal the antenna does come with two pieces of rg6 with compression fittings on there from antennas direct and they also sell cable and stuff like that so that's your cable lesson for today let's say you don't want to put up a mast and normally like satellites can be mounted on roofs antennas Direct actually has a mount here that would go on the roof and basically your foot would go and get screwed with the bolts to your single roof keep in mind you don't want to screw this over any living areas area that's a practice with satellite installation you always mount this over the eave so that if the water leaks through the shingles you don't have water damage in your house so you can put tar under here and mount this to the roof and your bracket would go like this and now you have a way to a fix your antenna to the top of this mast antennas Direct has that and some other style mounts this would be almost identical to a Direct TV style mount adjustable for the pitch of your roof and able to mount on any kind of shingle or wood platform okay so for the purpose of this video my friend here wants to have a longer Pole and concreted and we're using a telescopic flagpole so for temporary for the purpose of this video I'm showing it up there right now I can go a little bit higher but it's not permanent so I don't want it to blow over now the coax take a look at this see this that's a no-no if you have that situation you have extra you want to cut off what you don't need the reason I use that longer piece is because he'll need that when he gets the permanent installation and he gets that up 15 20 feet remember just like in ham radios CB radio or anything height is might the higher you can get this the better the higher above the roof line the better now keep in mind you see that power there you want to make sure please guys do not come in contact with that power if it falls this would not be an ideal situation with it right here maybe over a little bit and up and braced to the he's probably at a bracelet to the soffit there or possibly some guy wires and a bag of concrete but you know you don't want this thing to fall into power lines you can be killed and if you I wish I would've made a video of it years ago my antenna on top of my tower blew over on a February I think it was 2015 and hit the 13,000 volt power lines and it destroyed everything from that antenna through my house all the coax turned into nothing disintegrated to ash the backs of my TV's blown apart and was sprayed plastic all over the wall it was pretty nasty you don't want that thing to contact power but what I did was I ran that right into the main feed that's going inside the house to that smart panel all right so this is that juice powered amplifier that I had got from there the for output HD TV distribution amplifier so basically what happens is this is powered so it comes with a power adapter you would put power plug this into the power and this would go it's a power now this is an active amplifier your antenna signal will go here to the RF in and then you have four outputs now this makes up for long coax runs a regular traditional splitter is going to add loss for every leg you put on that splitter so if you have a decent signal and you split it eight times to feed your house it's again turning to a poor signal this actually makes up for the loss in long runs on the fringe area in multiple rooms or multiple runs off the same splitter so here is that coax that I found outside okay and this is going to go to the RF band right now by an antenna signal is feeding from outside through the coax in the house all the way to the sample and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to borrow one of these plugs here for one of these Ethernet hubs and I'm going to plug this in all right now you see the amplifier is on now in the situation you don't have this smart panel again you can use a coax in a room that you don't have TV simply find out and identify which coax line that is plug this in say in the back porch or in the garage and feed that coax to wherever your distribution point is outside you don't have to have an elaborate setup like this to do this so basically my antenna signal is coming in here it's being amplified and now I got to find out where my living room feed is off this splitter and plug it into one of the outs keep in mind that you may not need an amplifier sometimes an amplifier can do more harm than good if you're in an area where you're very close to TV sites you can actually overdrive and distort the digital signal which would make it pixelate so a lot of people may not need an amplifier but in this situation because I'm right in the middle of West Palm in Orlando Market and I have multiple TVs that would need to be fed with long coax runs in the size of this house an amplifier made you good but the preamplifier now if I didn't use an amplifier I could use a pre amplifier on the mast which I'll show you in a second so this is the Juice UHF VHF antenna pre amplifier system from antennas direct comm and a pre amplifier is different than an amplifier in fact in ham radio we use preamplifiers on VHS UHF sometimes as well let me explain the difference now anytime you have signal traveling over a long feed line or coax you can sometimes get noise introduced so let's say you have your antenna up and you're picking up 80% signal quality from the TV station by the time it gets to the TV maybe it's dropped to 30% so you automatically think you want to amplify that bring it back up to 80 but if any noise got introduced into that so it may have dropped a 30% but you have 50% noise okay if you amplify that 50% of noise it turns into 100% of noise even though your signal quality goes up with the amplifier also amplifying the noise with a mast mount preamplifier this is designed to go to as close to the antenna feed point as possible so before noise is introduced into the system you're amplifying it at the source and then you're sending that amplified signal down the coax so that by the time it gets to the TV it's your 80% with no noise in it now cable companies strategically put amplifiers on poles on their network and they put them strategically to amplify before it gets noisy if they just slapped amplifiers where there was low service they'd be amplifying the noise on top of the signal so before the noise gets introduced they put another booster and it goes down the line down the line so they can boost it before it gets noisy that's the same thing with an amplifier preamp and what you might not want to do is first you need to see how far these stations are because again more power can be bad you want to see if your stations are close if you even need an amplifier first off but if you do need an amplifier choose one or the other however you don't want to use both because in some situations you're sending a hot signal into an amplifier to make it hotter and in return you're actually losing channels because you're over driving the digital and at that point it loses packets of information and turns into a distorted or no signal at all if you have an HDTV flat screen that was manufactured in the year 2007 or later it must have an internal digital decoder built into the TV part of the mandate now a lot of people have a misconception that this coax jack is only for old VCRs or the old antennas and your new digital antenna or digital TV over-the-air is not going to work but in fact your digital data stream is coming down the coax and it goes into this F connector that's called an F connector and the TV inside takes that digital information and converts it into a signal that you can see on your TV with any digital information that's with it such as electronic program guide if TV supports it or station identification now if you have a TV manufactured previously to 2007 it may say HD ready and that doesn't mean that it does have a digital decoder built in it simply means that it may have a component input on it where it can display 720 or 1080 on it but there are options for TVs previous of 2007 that only are analog to use this over-the-air HD TV service was a digital to analog converter let me show you that now so check this out here was one of those converter boxes I told you about that was coupon eligible right here and you mailed out for one of these in or two of them for your household they sent you back so these boxes this is an our tech I never heard of our tech however there was a lot of companies that came out out of a whim knowing they can make some quick cash and they were paid by the government with each coupon and they were developing these things and they probably had a business afterwards people still use these and they still work for analog TVs that don't accept a digital station or digital signal and they have cool features like electronic program guide and parental controls and closed captions and all that it all comes in on that digital station or digital signal so this was one actually here's the box right here the actual unit here and it was nothing fancy it had a remote with it it powered on you had standard output composite output or an RF output for a standard analog TV that was it channel 3 or channel 4 and you changed the channels with the remote through this box and then they had another one here and a Craig Craig is familiar they made some C B's and some other stuff back in the day clocks and whatever else I think they still still do make them the buttons are missing here for the channels but the same thing you had remote with it if you lost the remote for this unit you were doomed and had a standard analog composite output or an RF output so yes these both will still work they have electronic program guides if you you know use one of these on your old Sony Trinitron or whatever and but now they have new advanced models that actually do DVR and full electronic program guide with scheduling and 1080p and all that stuff so it's probably going to come up on your TV and say the tuner has not been set up if you've never used antenna so what you got to do based on your TV is you want to go and scan for channels and this is going to say a channel source antenna find channels now it's going to start pulling in and check in every channel analog and digital it's probably not going to find any analog but we're going to see how many channels this finds and what it looks like alright so after a channel scan just put the antenna about eight feet off the ground picked up 22 channels I bet you if I push that up another 10 feet you'd probably get more channels but to look at the picture here full HD zooming up here if I could see it there's 25-1 remember I told you about the digital sub-channels there's 25 to 25 3 I'm 27 now 27 let me tell you about 27 this channel is by far actually 27.2 is one of my favorite channels of all time this channel plays all the stuff that you will never get on cable Sanford and sons WKRP in Cincinnati all in the family all kinds of it's called antenna TV is the channel and it is only on antenna you cannot get that channel on cable so you can see here on the top that's broadcast in 1080i depending on the channel and the broadcast 1080 right there 34 - 1w TV x all high def full high-definition now again 22 channels only with it that high I'm going to push it up a few feet and see what kind of difference that makes and imagine if you had it up on the tower or on a pole at 50 feet above the air what kind of signal you could possibly get we had to get it up higher to see what would happen it's about 10-15 feet above the ground we went up another 10 feet so let's do another scan so moving it up just that a few feet I went up to 28 channels and that's face in Orlando but I may not be exactly on target based on compass heading that's where the antenna point app comes in it's called antenna point in the iOS app store currently only on Apple but I think they're working on Android and basically from antennas direct comm they developed their app it's got a good Help section in it with different pages to show you but basically what the app does is gives you an idea using your phone like a compass and an arrow in the middle to tell you which way you need to point your antenna to see which TV broadcast towers now a little word of advice here you see the little rings in the middle the app is basically showing you for 35 mile 50 mile and 70 mile range from the towers so it can show you okay these two towers here in the yellow are in the 50 mile range I need an antenna that can pick up signals 50 miles away there are a lot of manufacturers and antennas being sold that tell you 150 and 200 mile range it's inaccurate if you're a ham operator you do know VHF and uhf is line-of-sight meaning it's not going to travel around the world it's not going to get lost in the atmosphere and propagate around the world but it can propagate on a good evening in certain months of the year spring and summer and fall and winter even where a station from my experience I've gotten stations before across Florida and Tampa to the East Coast here on Florida on a good day and it didn't last long but it actually picked up the signal the majority of the signals are about 70 miles now if you're up 50 or 60 feet you may go beyond that because this is based you know basing 70 miles on the average height above ground that people can mount their antennas not everybody can put 160 feet up in the air but by all means if you can get one up 100 feet in the air you're gonna pick up a lot of TV so you can actually look on here it'll show you the TV transmitters and you can click on them and it'll show you the TV station on that tower and then you know which way you need to point it like this to get that station so it looks as if I turned the antenna the opposite way where there isn't really any stations and I'm only picking up 10 off the side in the back side of the antenna so it does make a difference even though you're higher above ground you think you can be real high if you don't have a point in the correct way you're not going to see all those stations that you could potentially get with your antenna so for the people that can't put it out your antenna yes you live in an apartment or a HOA believe it or not though you can by law put up an antenna in an HOA but that's a whole nother you can look up the otar and the link is in the description however the indoor amplified Clearstream flex antenna this out this thing is like a piece of vinyl I mean it's thin look at this and this goes on your wall looks kind of aesthetically pleasing it comes with the cable that you would connect from the antenna to the amplifier that comes with it now this is a power amplifier to give you additional strength for being inside because of course inside antennas versus outside with all your home structure is really going to be a significant difference but plugging this in line so you got one that goes from your TV to here to TV and then to antenna goes from here to the antenna and you can power that either by the USB port on your flat-screen TV if you have one if you ever wonder what that USB port did well one thing it does is power or it comes with your wall wart adapter so you can plug this in and power amplify your your antenna here and we'll see this says in my area I'm lucky to get three channels based on my market in my area with an indoor antenna we'll see how that works so the the clearstream flex is pretty cool it's reversible black or white to make it appealing to your taste and your motif here I recommend mounting this if you're gonna buy it behind the TV if you can get away with mounting it to where it's not too bad let me put it some way from behind the TV will make a little bit of a difference compared to you putting it directly behind this electronic device so for the time being it does have a shirt grip sticker so you can choose a side you want you can apply this adhesive and stick this right on the wall right behind the TV or if you can get it up like this be even better it doesn't look at that and again this is going to go from the antenna like this just keep in mind any time any company tells you you're going to get a hundred channels or something like this it's not possible they're not trying to idea antennas too right they they said three channels is about my area of what I'm going to get for an antenna like this if someone tells us as seen on TV 1995 they'll get 50 channels it depends on where you live doesn't this is an antenna it's an antenna is an antenna going difference between this one and the other one is the 20 DBM line amplifier that goes with this and I have this plugged in USB to the TV so with the indoor antenna it said in my area I would expect about three channels digital and that's about what it found three I don't have it permanently mounted here yet I just kind of lay it there so the average person would try the antenna when I was in their house and say well it didn't work and it was you know even if they got one channel sometimes it would pixelate and it was an indoor antenna and they thought antenna was garbage but your results may vary depending on the building structure of your house where the antenna is located from you if you can put that indoor antenna by a window up higher it would do a lot better than stuffing it behind the TV here on a block home folks why am i showing you the antennas Direct website why did I choose antennas direct because this is not your everyday eBay buy an antenna and be stuck with no support kind of site in my video is probably not going to answer every single one of your questions so I refer you here for any information primarily the main question I'm going to get how many channels will I get if I live here well check this out antenna selector you can go right to this site and type in your zip code and search and it's going to tell you based on your location and where the broadcasting stations are what kind of antenna you would need or you can get and what you'd expect to get for range for instance Clearstream for max I can get 84 channels probably up to 84 channels with the appropriate installation with a 70 mile range that's probably all of Orlando and all the west palm market in sebastian right in the middle and I've done that before with another antenna or if I live in an apartment I can expect in Sebastian with an indoor antenna like this to get three channels so that's just on my zip code let's just type in Hollywood California 902 or whatever that is there so you can see here with the clear stream for max you can expect up to 164 channels even with an indoor $40.00 antenna you can get a hundred and sixty channels and you can look at the channel list and see exactly what channels you'll get here look at this these are all free guys you don't have to pay for these buy it install it you're done the Learning Center is somewhere I went in here because I always like to brush up on my knowledge and I wanted to see not for what I need in my area because I know what I need for my antenna situation but I wanted to see you know some frequently asked questions and technology and how it works and stuff like that but if that doesn't do it for you and you can't find what you need here by yourself call this one 877 number here this is the connection crew the connection crew is bar none there this is not an outsourced thing these people know how to answer the phone help you out in your situation your location and tell you exactly what you'd need based on your price and what you're looking to get so a live chat here fill out the live chat talk with somebody hey I live here I don't know if I should get this antenna this one what's the difference boom they'll tell you I really am comfortable with the people I talk to at this site acting like a customer that didn't know them or wasn't making a video and was totally impressed with their customer service and believe me believe me I worked for an install company for cable TV for years I hated our customer service and I worked for the company our customer service was horrible and everybody said that wasn't really it wasn't the person's fault it was the company's fault but beyond that if you go to a place like this you have somebody here that's going to help and make sure you're satisfied so I truly recommend in tennis direct comm and if there's anything that you've bought from here or you're familiar with the site leave a comment below tell me what you think about in tennis direct comm another site I want to show you that is not related to antennas direct comm but it's very popular amongst the over-the-air recipients and I've used it myself years ago TV fool comm the link is below this video in the description and basically TV fool gives you another idea of what stations are available based on your address if you click here on check your address you just simply need to type in if you really want to get precise you can type in your whole address we'll just type in my zip code here and it'll show you based on my zip code which stations the direction they are from me and which stations I would get and there you know heading right here so I could use a compass and I can see based here this way would be Melbourne in Orlando market and this way down here would be port st. Lucie Fort Pierce in west palm market there are way out stations over here that I probably couldn't get maybe Tampa area but I can see here that I'm in between both stations or both you know markets so that's why it's a little tricky for me to get the station's I have now it'll show you here if you can see the green behind it the green and the legend here is really good for signal the yellow would be a little harder to get the red would be in your fringe area and then your gray would be pretty much impossible unless you had extended means of getting those kind of signals with a perfect antenna now there's another way of doing this if you go back to home and you click on see which TV stations you can get on a map and you start Maps and it's like an interactive map here based on again your zip code and it will show you if you zoom out it'll show you the station's here's the Orlando market here's the west palm market and you have some in between simply clicking on a station like this will show me the compass heading and all that ok or I look down here it shows me all the digital channels here if has this little icon for instance at wPBF is 25 it will show me on a detailed color map of the coverage of that and in ham radio we have something similar for certain repeaters if you're familiar with that where it'll show you how far the repeater will cover so you can see here in Port Saint Lucie I'm actually in the almost a green here so it tells you right here medium medium kind of antenna I would need you can see typical range rooftop antennas I can go all the way down here if it was a really good installation typical Ranger indoor antenna would be the green here so I could theoretically pick this up with a good indoor antenna so this site here tells you a lot of information also for transmitter callsign list lookup if you're looking for a specific station and other means of locating what channels are in your area so definitely not the longest video I did on my channel along this video beat a hurricane video if you haven't checked that out already hurricane season is coming up but definitely packed full information it's so long though that I don't have time for the thing I teased before the clear stream TV now I really want to show you guys this thing to be able to connect your antenna to your TVs and your smartphones and tablets and stream pause rewind fast-forward live antenna TV with something like this that'll be a part two so we'll get to that I don't want to put it in here and bore you anymore but hopefully I need couple things I need you to leave a like for the effort of my video and I also need you to leave a comment below if you'd like and tell me what you think about your decision for switching to over-the-air free or what you thought about the effort I put into this video and the material that I brought to you everybody learns from your comments as well as me I can't reply to them all sometimes I open up my email in the morning and there's 50 comments in there I can't go through them all but I love reading them and people learn from your comments also when someone asks a question if you have an answer for an answer hijack my thread whatever you know we're all in here and by the way shout out shoutout to ham-radio 2.0 for the shirt Jason Johnson kc5 h WB he's got a youtube channel as well if you checked that out thanks for the shirt Jason and so anyways more videos on the way part 2 again with the clear stream TV and in the future I also want to make as a telecommunications expert I want to make a video on Wi-Fi in the home because you know something like this revolves around Wi-Fi you watching this video revolves around Wi-Fi and you know what a lot of the complaints I had when I went to these repairs were my Wi-Fi slow I'm paying for this and getting this but a lot of it was education yeah you're paying for this and you're getting that but your computer only supports this or the way this is positioned of the way this is setup or your device is using this much and you only have this much left so a lot of education that'll help you understand your Wi-Fi experience better if you're having trouble in the home with Wi-Fi so that'll be up in the future on a video like that but thanks for watching again more videos on the way this one took me a little bit of time and effort to make I've had this in the pipe for several months back in November I wanted to do this and fell out of it but all the links are in the description below and more will be added as I can get them and let me know what you think about cutting the cord and I hope you tune in again for something else in the future 7:3 from KJ for why is the eye

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Id: Wm0aZeA6gW8

Length: 47min 36sec (2856 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 06 2018