antenna broke, recommend replacement?
My tv antenna broke and it's time to replace it. It was the old-style rotating kind with a crank to raise and lower i, with the long horizontal bar elements (Winegard?) Looked like this (before it bro...
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n7bsn wrote:MNtundraRet wrote:rk911 wrote:
there is no such thing as a digital TV antenna (or an high def antenna for that matter) and while many of the stations have migrated to UHF there are still some on VHF frequencies (CBS 2 in Chicago for example). the new Winegard Sensar IV antenna is getting good reviews (despite it's somewhat misleading marketing as receiving all "HD" channels).
BS ALERT!
Channel 2 is actually RF channel 12. As I stated channels 2 to 6 were in the RF spectrum released for other use.
Could you quote the FCC order to back that up.... (hint, you can't)
FCC guide on tv antennas (note it includes 2-6)
Select current channel assigments (note the number broadcasting on 2-6)
ATSC signal 3 MHz above lower edge
VHF low-band (band I)
(frequencies in MHz)
Channel
Lower edge
Video carrier
ATSC pilot
Audio carrier
Upper edge
2 54 55.25 54.31 59.75 60
3 60 61.25 60.31 65.75 66
4 66 67.25 66.31 71.75 72
5 76 77.25 76.31 81.75 82
6 82 83.25 82.31 87.75 88
VHF high-band (band III)
(frequencies in MHz)
Channel
Lower edge
Video carrier
ATSC pilot
Audio carrier
Upper edge
7 174 175.25 174.31 179.75 180
8 180 181.25 180.31 185.75 186
9 186 187.25 186.31 191.75 192
10 192 193.25 192.31 197.75 198
11 198 199.25 198.31 203.75 204
12 204 205.25 204.31 209.75 210
13 210 211.25 210.31 215.75 216
