RadioShack VHF/UHF Antenna $ 71.00 RadioShack Outdoor Antenna Rotator $ 64.00 RadioShack 100-Foot Rotator Control Cable $ 24.00 Digital Broadcast-to-Analog Converter $ 60.00 ----------------------- I will not pay for over the air broadcast TV. That is what the sponsors and the commercials are for. The reason why you pay for the cable and satellite TV is because you are paying the provider not the stations. ----------------------- www.tvfool.com http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29 http://www.zap2it.com/ Select: TV Listings Local Broadcast www.antennaweb.org (for United States addresses only) to see what you might pick up OTA with the correct antenna? It will give advice on what type of antenna to buy and even tell you where (and how) to point it for the best overall coverage using a simple street map (no compass needed). Stations and Antenna Types The stations below are grouped according to the color-coded antenna type needed to receive them. Select your preferred antenna type by choosing the color code that matches the stations you want to view. Move your mouse over a station to highlight on the map its relationship to your location. Click on a color to view more information that antenna's type. The list also contains each station's call sign, channel, affiliation, distance from the tower and its direction in degrees from your location, according to magnetic North. ----------------------- cut the cable cord! ----------------------- Hey, let's not lose track of the most important factor here: Digital broadcast television is free. Cable TV providers can hawk their "bottled water" all they want, I'm just not buying the idea. And none of the programs we choose to watch in our home are mindless (okay... I confess to the "The Office"). Sure, when changing channels, we have to reference our inkjet printed 2-page channel listing for the exact direction to that TV station, and set it on the wired-in antenna rotator remote. But I took my family to Europe on the money we saved, much to the surprise, and envy, of my equally paid co-workers. It's just where your priorities are I guess. ------------------------ Digital Broadcast Television: It's free, it's clean and sharp -and the wave of the future! So far, I'm getting 85 channels of perfect digital reception. And I extend no sympathy to those who tried to pull in digital broadcast television on a cheap rabbit-ear antenna, gave up easy, and opted for pay TV. I also suspect those who sell cable TV for a living are deliberately mucking up this thread with misinformation, to confuse and baffle our readers into compliance. But if you're the type of do-it-yourself person, who wants to save some megabucks, do what I did 20 years ago, and go to any radio electronics store and they will help you select an appropriate roof-top UHF-VHF antenna, antenna rotator with wired-in remote, and coax cable. And maybe an inexpensive signal amplifier (but only after you have installed and used your rig for a while). In spite of what some have posted here, a UHF-VHF antenna is absolutely required. The store staff may also inform you that your area is sparsely populated and has very few channels. I keep a running TV Channel listing on my laptop and print out a new one every time a new station appears. And I glued a compass dial around the remote knob, 360 degrees, marked at every degree. But you'll have to do your homework: Over time, carefully note the exact antenna directions of your favorite stations, and write them down on a master list. To remove all doubt, I would suggest that you simply knock on the door of some person in your community who has a rotating rooftop antenna, to get the lowdown on the true possibilities. Don't be bashful, as most of us love to talk nuts-and-bolts. But, unfortunately, we're far and few. In my sizable town, there are only only two of us, as far as I know. And as I mentioned earlier, I suspect that cable TV salesmen may be clouding up the discussion here. A month ago, someone knocked on my front door. When I answered, he seemed eager and had questions as to how well my TV antenna system worked. But as I explained it to him, he became visibly irritated when I showed him my 2-page, 85 channels, digital broadcast TV list, and told him that I believed that free digital broadcast TV would run pay cable TV out of business. He then mentioned that he sold cable TV for a living -and wanted to know how many people I had told that "misinformation" to. I told him "... everyone I meet..." and closed the door in his face. -------------------- I totally agree with you. I predicted, a couple of years ago, that free digital broadcast TV would run pay cable TV out of business. So I am amazed that almost everyone I know simply glazes over and still pays out monthly for cable TV. I have had a medium-sized VHF-UHF TV antenna, on a motorized rotator, and mounted on my chimney for 15 years now. Early on, it pulled in 24 local, and distant, analog TV channels. But with digital broadcast it now pulls in 85 channels -and counting. I also have a TV signal amplifier that works quite well and pulls in even more channels, but it literally drowns me in too many options, so I never use it. Over the years, I've slowly accumulated a 2-page listing of 85 TV channels, with a channel description, and complete with accurate antenna rotator direction dial settings, so changing to any channel is a breeze. ---------------------