whitebb2727
Well-Known Member
I live in the mountains as well and used to work for a satalitte company. Worked in places like that.i live in the mountains, antennas do nothing here. you can't even get dish tv where we live, the "window" is too narrow
Are you in the bottom of a holler surrounded completely?
You would be surprised at what you can make work.
I've seen satalitte dishes mounted 100 foot in the air to get over mountians.
Sucks though if you can't get tv.
I think it's antenna.org that you put your address in and it shows what stations and how far and even what elevation to put the antenna.
It varies by area.We have pretty much the same 4 broadcast channels we did 40 years ago, but since they are digital, each one has 3-4 sub-channels. Sister and BIL use an antenna, and they get 12-15 channels if the weather is right.
Sister is a Denver Bronco fan, and she will come over to our house to watch the games. She will call and say, "I'm coming over to watch the game, is that alright?" Neither the wife nor I are big NFL fans, and it's a pain in the ass having company that was not planned, watching a game we wouldn't be watching except for them. Plus she has made snide comments in the past about folks who pay for TV.
I have Dish, and often the FSU basketballs games are on a broadcast channel out of Panama City that I don't get. I always kid about going over to watch the game at their house. But I just end up listening on the radio.
Hell I'm in the mountains and bought my mom one of those cheap rotating antennas of Amazon and it gets about 12-15 channels.
The bigger antenna would get more.