Anybody ever heard of this HD Antenna technology
This device is being pushed on the Woot website. Woot's owned by Amazon as most know. How does it work? NEVER PAY FOR CABLE AGAIN
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austinjenna wrote:at home i was able to see all chicago stations except cbs using a straightened paper clip as an "antenna".
Thats because you need an HD paperclip. Fortunately for you I do sell them but not really sure if its legal for me to sell you this as it has the possibilities to overwhelm your tv set with the amount of channels it will pull in. If you want to take the leap then let me know and we can work out a payment plan but dont wait long as this military grade clips will sell fast!
lmao! well, the paperclip was one of those larger ones. i'm a ham and had a TV in the shack and had not yet run the coax to that room. had a paperclip lying on the desk and wondered...gave it a shot as a lark and was stunned when it worked. the house is in the primary service area for chicago tv stations...roughly 25-mi west of downtown. the cbs station (wbbm, ch 2) has since moved ops to the ch-13 freq and who knows, maybe the paper clip would bring in that station now. i'm sure it helped that my set was on rhe second floor against an outside wall.
of course the point of the story was that just about anything can work as an antenna if you're close enough to the txmt site and that the term..HD antenna is pure BS marketing.
