Being a long term C/park resident (16 years), I have noticed a 1,000 different types of TV antenna floating around. I am still using my $99 Dick Smith's cheapy, and it is 10 to 20 years old and gets all of the 22 TV and Radio channels perfectly. What are people getting that I am not getting? Excluding Dish Antennas of course. If you can suggest an improvement for me, a photo would be handy.
Simmo
KFT said
05:40 PM Nov 2, 2015
G'day young simmo
if you did a rescan of your TV you might find there are around 32 TV channels in lots of areas now.
One of these would be the best bet in a CP and not expensive either, usually around $50
Thanks Frank, I will at least do a retune as the last time was about 2 years ago. We are only about 1 Kilometre from the Transmitter, which is up beside the Big Dish antenna in Carnarvon.
Cheers.....Simmo.
Wombat 280 said
06:18 PM Nov 2, 2015
If your free to air viewer don't waste your time replacing your old one, unless you need more shopping channels or want to watch re-runs of re-runs Spent a week laid up and at the end I was almost homicidal verging on suicidal. it certainly hastened my recovery to full health. The plan is to have us all go Foxtel or some Telstra hybrid so we can watch the re-runs in HD
03_Troopy said
06:27 PM Nov 2, 2015
Cheer up Wombat, ABC will have a new channel of 24/7 cooking shows on soon..
Phil C said
07:42 PM Nov 2, 2015
We have the wine guard "fly swatter" which works rather well, good TV is becoming a thing of the past so I'm not too concerned if it breaks, we have all the comm channels and ABC.
Cheers
Wombat 280 said
08:27 PM Nov 2, 2015
s03_Troopy wrote:
Cheer up Wombat, ABC will have a new channel of 24/7 cooking shows on soon..
Now I am really depressed ,another reality show which defies reality , just how many ways can you boil a 3 minute egg or burn water. In my recent week of boredom I noted they never tell the viewer what the cost is buy it outright they only ever tell you " Yours for 14 days trial for $14.95" The big surprise come if you want to send it back, don't expect that rate when you head off down to the post office. Shouldn't pre judge as I've never made a purchase from TV
The Doo crew said
03:26 PM Nov 3, 2015
Whenever anybody asks what's on out TV, I always tell them DUST. Put it in the corner of the lounge when we moved in & its never been plugged in.
Stimulating conversation or a good book works well at our place, or if the weather is nice some time in the garden or the "man cave" playing with boy's toys.
Or time on the forums if confined to quarters.
Wombat 280 said
05:36 PM Nov 3, 2015
The Doo crew wrote:
Whenever anybody asks what's on out TV, I always tell them DUST. Put it in the corner of the lounge when we moved in & its never been plugged in. Stimulating conversation or a good book works well at our place, or if the weather is nice some time in the garden or the "man cave" playing with boy's toys. Or time on the forums if confined to quarters.
Man that's the go, I love my man cave and boys toys I can go there at dawn and only come out when Mrs Wombat calls me in for tea even have a phone in there just in case someone call for me
in transit said
09:49 PM Nov 3, 2015
A TV antenna is the same thing whether or not it is described as a digital antenna or even a colour TV antenna, so a thirty year old antenna in good condition and cut to the appropriate length for the transmitter near you will be as good as a brand new one. The antenna that most of the people in your town are using on their house roofs will be the best one and it won't look like anything that is available at an RV outlet. If what you are offered at these places was really any good, people would use them on their houses.
RV antennas are designed to be compact, stowable and easy to use. A good example is the round omni-directional antenna. These work equally poorly in all directions, so you don't need to aim them at the transmitter. Unfortunately they will suffer signal loss well before a correctly aimed uni-directional (yagi) antenna most of these will be long and thin
unless you live in an area which still receives VHF channels.
There isn't a perfect terrestrial TV antenna. Terrain and trees (particularly in bad weather) will have you resorting to conversation.
HiAce98 said
12:26 AM Nov 5, 2015
I had to fork out $600 to get SAT tv when they turned off the analog for my area, but if I'd known how few of all those channels were worth watching I would have spent the money on extra Wireless internet instead. Just watched an episode of Spicks and Specks that was previously run only 5 weeks ago. Best thing on the telly of late is Shaun the Sheep. A cooking channel!!!?? God help us if the rubbish on telly is any indication of the average viewing public's IQ.
03_Troopy said
06:57 AM Nov 5, 2015
HiAce98 wrote:
I had to fork out $600 to get SAT tv when they turned off the analog for my area, but if I'd known how few of all those channels were worth watching I would have spent the money on extra Wireless internet instead. Just watched an episode of Spicks and Specks that was previously run only 5 weeks ago. Best thing on the telly of late is Shaun the Sheep. A cooking channel!!!?? God help us if the rubbish on telly is any indication of the average viewing public's IQ.
When they switched off analogue TV in your area, wasn't there digital TV still available?
HiAce98 said
01:22 AM Nov 6, 2015
03_Troopy wrote:
HiAce98 wrote:
I had to fork out $600 to get SAT tv when they turned off the analog for my area, but if I'd known how few of all those channels were worth watching I would have spent the money on extra Wireless internet instead. Just watched an episode of Spicks and Specks that was previously run only 5 weeks ago. Best thing on the telly of late is Shaun the Sheep. A cooking channel!!!?? God help us if the rubbish on telly is any indication of the average viewing public's IQ.
When they switched off analogue TV in your area, wasn't there digital TV still available?
Nope. About 1/3 the homes in the district were in "black spots", which they knew but still made us one of the first areas of Qld to lose analogue. But then, we're only country bumpkins with a population density too low for any councillor or politician to take an interest. But then that's one of the good things about living here
-- Edited by HiAce98 on Friday 6th of November 2015 01:24:50 AM
KFT said
04:43 PM Nov 6, 2015
G'day HiAce98
if you live in a recognised blackspot the guvvamint should have given you a free satellite setup.
frank
HiAce98 said
04:35 PM Nov 11, 2015
KFT wrote:
G'day HiAce98
if you live in a recognised blackspot the guvvamint should have given you a free satellite setup.
frank
Only if you're a pensioner and I retired 6 months too late for that
Being a long term C/park resident (16 years), I have noticed a 1,000 different types of TV antenna floating around. I am still using my $99 Dick Smith's cheapy, and it is 10 to 20 years old and gets all of the 22 TV and Radio channels perfectly. What are people getting that I am not getting? Excluding Dish Antennas of course. If you can suggest an improvement for me, a photo would be handy.
Simmo
G'day young simmo
if you did a rescan of your TV you might find there are around 32 TV channels in lots of areas now.
One of these would be the best bet in a CP and not expensive either, usually around $50
Frank
Cheers.....Simmo.
Cheer up Wombat, ABC will have a new channel of 24/7 cooking shows on soon..
Cheers
Now I am really depressed ,another reality show which defies reality , just how many ways can you boil a 3 minute egg or burn water. In my recent week of boredom I noted they never tell the viewer what the cost is buy it outright they only ever tell you " Yours for 14 days trial for $14.95" The big surprise come if you want to send it back, don't expect that rate when you head off down to the post office. Shouldn't pre judge as I've never made a purchase from TV
Stimulating conversation or a good book works well at our place, or if the weather is nice some time in the garden or the "man cave" playing with boy's toys.
Or time on the forums if confined to quarters.
Man that's the go, I love my man cave and boys toys I can go there at dawn and only come out when Mrs Wombat calls me in for tea even have a phone in there just in case someone call for me
RV antennas are designed to be compact, stowable and easy to use. A good example is the round omni-directional antenna. These work equally poorly in all directions, so you don't need to aim them at the transmitter. Unfortunately they will suffer signal loss well before a correctly aimed uni-directional (yagi) antenna most of these will be long and thin
unless you live in an area which still receives VHF channels.
There isn't a perfect terrestrial TV antenna. Terrain and trees (particularly in bad weather) will have you resorting to conversation.
When they switched off analogue TV in your area, wasn't there digital TV still available?
Nope. About 1/3 the homes in the district were in "black spots", which they knew but still made us one of the first areas of Qld to lose analogue. But then, we're only country bumpkins with a population density too low for any councillor or politician to take an interest. But then that's one of the good things about living here
-- Edited by HiAce98 on Friday 6th of November 2015 01:24:50 AM
if you live in a recognised blackspot the guvvamint should have given you a free satellite setup.
frank
Only if you're a pensioner and I retired 6 months too late for that