I have an antenna on the roof. The cable runs down the outside of the house and into the basement and plugs into an amplifier. From the basement I run a two cables to the outside of the house - one goes through the brick into a television on the second floor and one goes through the wall to a television on the third floor. Finally one runs under the floor and then through the floor to a tv in the living room. All seem to work very well.
> On Apr 28, 2019, at 4:50 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I ran across this gizmo (LiveWave) that plugs into an outlet and uses your >> houses electrical wiring as an antenna to pull in broadcast tv stations. It >> negates the need for a rooftop antenna. >> >> I have not tried it but there was some discussion on the list about cutting >> the cable. > > These things have been around forever. I can remember them from back in the > 90s promising better UHF reception. All they do is use the ground wires in > your house as an antenna. Since the ground wires were not installed to be an > antenna, they’ll probably not work as well as a real antenna. You could make > one of these yourself for a few cents. > > We’ve got cheap antennas connected to the TVs and they get about 35 > channels—counting all the sub channels. They’re all the indoor flat-panel > type and I see no difference between the one I got for $6.95 at Ollie’s > Bargain Mart and the “expensive” amplified versions I got from Amazon for > about $22. (The amplifier seems to make no difference.) > > L^2 > > ---- > Lee Larson > [email protected] > > A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with > the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla. — Mitch Ratcliffe > Technology Review, April 1992 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=pakf3RObhGuReFpdasINIM1JVyow9_XWCGxPw2C1jSE&s=rgwtEHq7pKea565mBgrtpoiu6FztqdhkxiX2AbVokuU&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
