There's a website that will help you determine the type of antenna for your area. Go to:<br><a href="http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx">http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx</a><br><br>This is really for internal antennas. On the box is a CEA color code. For my house, I need an antenna with a CEA color code of yellow for most stations, and blue for WOI. Of course, WOI is at a different angle (3 degrees) than the other stations. I have an RCA antenna, and quite frankly, it sucks. I would recommend almost anything over it. I've never been able to get a station to stay locked in once I leave the antenna. And I live on a hill in West Des Moines. Someone I work with bought a roof-mount antenna. He lives in Winterset, and doesn't seem to have too many problems.
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 2, 2007 8:38 PM, Tad Anhalt <<a href="mailto:tja@netins.net">tja@netins.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
neal daringer wrote:<br>> [...] as it stands i only have the ultra-basic cable plan (network<br><div class="Ih2E3d">> and local tv plus the shopping and religous channels), so if i can<br>> get all the same channels that i get now OTA in digital, then why
<br>> should i stick with cable? i'm willing to shell out a few hundred<br>> bucks now for a good antenna and pick up everything i need in digital<br>> if it has its perks if catv wont be switching to digital.
<br><br></div>Where do you live? You may not even need a "good" antenna. Ankeny gets<br>both analog and digital for ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PAX, ION, KCWI, KDMI and<br>PBS (2 digital channels) with junk rabbit ears (complete with clip-on
<br>UHF bowtie) and the built-in tuner on a fairly low end HDTV. I've heard<br>similar reports from friends in Grimes, Johnston and parts of Des Moines<br>as well.<br><br>There's also a few religious channels in there somewhere and a shopping
<br>channel as well if those are an important part of the TV experience that<br>you feel you'd be missing by unplugging the cable... ;)<br><br>A better indoor directional antenna would probably help with multipath<br>
and make things less fiddly to set up and keep up, but it's worth a try<br>with whatever junk you've got laying around first.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Tad<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________
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