Jusplainwacky
Senior Member
Perhaps this isn't something novel, but I thought I'd share how I find local TV stations using my antenna.
I discovered two issues in trying to find local channels;
One is that the King TV antenna is very directional, and if the antenna isn't pointing directly at the broadcast station, the antenna won't pick it up.
The second thing is, I have a TV that scans for stations and then stores them. If the antenna isn't pointing at the station, it won't find any...so I'd move the antenna (to who knows where), hope for the best, scan again, only to again no stations found. I'd repeat this and finally give up.
What I did was Google "location of local stations" and I found a website where you put in your location and it will give you a list of stations, the distance from your location, and magnetic direction in degrees. This website is located at;
https://www.channelmaster.com/pages/tv-antenna-map
Using my Iphone compass app, I can determine where the degrees are and then point my antenna in that direction, lining up the antenna to the direction on my Iphone.
I spent a lot of time trying to find stations just guessing where to point my antenna, and normally not finding any; once I pointed the antenna to one of the stations listed, I found 13 channels.
I booked marked the website so I look up local stations anyplace I go.
Hope someone finds this useful.
I discovered two issues in trying to find local channels;
One is that the King TV antenna is very directional, and if the antenna isn't pointing directly at the broadcast station, the antenna won't pick it up.
The second thing is, I have a TV that scans for stations and then stores them. If the antenna isn't pointing at the station, it won't find any...so I'd move the antenna (to who knows where), hope for the best, scan again, only to again no stations found. I'd repeat this and finally give up.
What I did was Google "location of local stations" and I found a website where you put in your location and it will give you a list of stations, the distance from your location, and magnetic direction in degrees. This website is located at;
https://www.channelmaster.com/pages/tv-antenna-map
Using my Iphone compass app, I can determine where the degrees are and then point my antenna in that direction, lining up the antenna to the direction on my Iphone.
I spent a lot of time trying to find stations just guessing where to point my antenna, and normally not finding any; once I pointed the antenna to one of the stations listed, I found 13 channels.
I booked marked the website so I look up local stations anyplace I go.
Hope someone finds this useful.
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