Well, the antenna you buy just once. Cable you pay for every month.

how interesting, dar. thanks.

30 yellow stations, 9 in other colors.

Damn, my area sucks!

I've got all dark blue and violet, all 14.8 to 15 miles, all except one at 49 to 51 degrees compass heading. That tells me it's a conspiracy. :tinfoil:

a-HA...I've been trying to tell you all that!

Finally got around to doing this. Here's a picture of one of my hanger antennas.

I do not recommend these around little kids. Too much chance of poking an eye out or something on the sharp ends of the hanger pieces.

It usually hides behind the cabinet, so the looks are not important.
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Got my converter box!

I can't find CW and ABC (I think) but CBS and Fox are crystal clear. I need to play around with it to see if I can find more channels; I used the auto-scan.

I'll be bummed if I can't get CW because I love those silly sitcoms like King of Queens. Maybe I'll look into a better antenna.

My TV is actually fairly new, but I bought it when I had very little cash and my other TV died...so I disregarded the "going to digital and this ain't it" notice and it's not a very big tv...but the picture now is WOW.

Not having had cable for so long, and getting fuzzy everything, when the wind was blowing the station would go in and out: This is like a whole new world!

Doesn't take much to make me happy.

The government program for converter boxes has run out of money. There are about 350,000 coupons are due to expire next week, so that may free up some coupons. And they are looking at further funding.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...010600089.html

We never used our coupons. So they will get $80 back from us.

I used one of my two allotted. Not sure when it expires but they can have mine.

Today's the day. Don't forget to rescan the channels periodically as they will be moving throughout the day - each station gets to decide what time they want to switch over.

The signals should settle down by midnight, so if you don't get a channel tomorrow and you've rescanned, you might have to put out the money for a better antenna.

Oh NOES...it'll be all over the news "WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN? No one ever told me this was going to happen. It's just wrong! They should bring the converter box to my door, install it, and watch me lay on the couch eating because it's just so unfair!"

Sorry, but it happened the first go 'round. People people people.

Watch them all call 911 cuz someone surely must have stole something to make their tv's not work. :haha:

Already happening, S. Go to google news and look at some of the hdtv articles.

I'm surprised it's actually happening. I half expect some federal court order to stop it at the last second.