I have been thinking about cutting the cord but it sounds like too much hassle. I just like setting things to record and watching them later. I cut my dish package down to the lowest they offer which gives me about all the channels I watch anyway. It cut channels others in the house like. Oh well.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 10, 2017, at 10:04 AM, Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I live less than a mile from the largest antenna farm of terrestrial stations > on the west coast of Florida. I believe there are no less than 60 licensed > channels transmitting at the site, based on the work I used to do there in my > previous career: > > http://antennaweb.org/Stations?Address=Valrico%2C%20FL%2033596%2C%20United%20States&AntennaHeight=False&Latitude=27.8825312&Longitude=-82.2474648 > > In other words, I can get most of these stations in my fillings. > > All jokes aside, I have a homemade bow tie dipole antenna in the closet of my > home office that's connected to a TV card in my Mac. I can watch all sorts of > good programming for free on my cheesegrater. > > I would cut the cord in a split second, but the spouse is a hard core TV > addict and insists on having hundreds of channels at her beck and call. > Ain't gonna happen. > > -D > > >> On Aug 10, 2017, at 10:29 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> Robert Conrad, Wild Wild West. A friend of mine has the whole series on DVD. >> He's getting me interested in Have Gun, Will Travel, and Maverick (James >> Garner). >> >> Poos needs to ditch cable and get an antenna. >> Way out here in the sticks, with a DIY bowtie screwed to the back of the TV >> stand (two pieces of 12ga house wire and a $2 balun) I can watch: >> Grit TV >> Get TV >> Antenna TV >> Me TV >> Bounce >> BET (or did that become Bounce?) >> CW (mostly new stuff, like Arrow, Flash) >> and there's probably a couple of rerun channels I'm forgetting about. >> M*A*S*H, I Dream of Jeanie, Green Acres, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Walker, >> Texas Ranger, Airwolf, Gilligan's Island, Crosby, Have Gun Will Travel, Mr >> Ed, Leave it to Beaver, Gunsmoke, Wild Wild West, Rawhide, it's all there >> for free. DVR the ones that air while you're at work. >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
