Thanks for the mention!

As an ex-TV repair man (person) from the 60's, tube type TV's, my most frequent outside job was replacing roof antennas. Main issue was that after a few years the 3 bolts holding them into the roof would cause leaks, even with the blob of roofing tar/cement on them. The best option was what I used on my previous homes. Steel conduit (thick 2.5") special order 20' and a 5 gallon bucket (sunk into the ground) with hole in it for the conduit to go through. Pounded the conduit into the ground a few feet, slid the bucket down the conduit into the hole, filled the bucket with cement, covered it with dirt to hide it, mounted the conduit to roof fascia (into a rafter) and pounded in a 10' ground rod which I connected to it. It withstood 65+ mph wind during many storms. So, what to do now here in Florida, with all the lightning that happens? I had a highly rated smaller antenna with a rotator on it which was a dud. After researching antennas, I found one and the Antenna Guy has high ratings on it, the ATSC 3 transmitting antenna is about 35 miles away, but before I buy it I need to research some information that I saw regarding the OTA TV companies eventually stopping their "FREE" ATSC-3 transmission to all but one channel each and going to a subscription base service. I guess the government in one of their rulings allowed for this. Need to look deeper into this, before purchasing an expensive antenna. Currently using KZfaq TV as our choice and they just raised their rates. Uhhhh soon they will be charging as much as the cable companies do

This is fantastic timing! Just tonight I talked my stepfather into getting the HD Homerun Flex 4k, after two of his subscription services bumped up their monthly prices on him. I'm recommending he get the exact same Televes Dat Boss antenna in time, but for now we're going to start with a small indoor antenna that we've tested and found to be adequate for the moment. Tyler The Antenna Man really knows his stuff, and I'm so glad I found him, and you, to get advice from.

Nice. I grabbed the Silicondust 4k ATSC 3.0 tuner ~18 months ago. Boston area channels, which I am in range of in NH, didn't have ATSC 3.0 feeds until very recently but they are live now. I've really enjoyed the OTA TV and not paying Comcast exorbitant fees for TV I rarely watch.

Tried many, Danny Hodges antenna gets at least all these channels. Over 60 honest miles away. Telescoping pole, don't even need a rotator although I added one anyway. Super happy with the result. Danny is da man!

Back in the early ATSC 1.0 days I placed a serious winegard antenna on my chimney. What they don't tell you is that the antenna may loosen some of the motar over time. I decided to move my antenna into my attic. I lost a dew decibels of signal but since I've never been that far from the TV antennas serving Boston (im by Worcester), it still worked out very well. I did however need to add an amplifier.

In line with the "put the tuner near the coax entry, since it's networkable", the HDHomeRun ATSC3 power inlet is a 12V 3.5x1.35 DC barrel. I got a PoE splitter from PoE Texas (which has a 5.5x2.1 DC barrel output) and a cheap barrel adapter from Amazon and now Ethernet and power for my FLEX ATSC3 unit is provided from my switch. Which is handy, since there is no AC outlet near where the antenna lead is...

This prompted me to check the status of the atsc3 rollout in my state. Lo and behold, the main stations near me have all gone live with it. So now I need to update my HD Homerun tuner box…

I'm in central long island and pick up the CT and NYC markets. The ATSC 3.0 is great way more stable picture and quality is great i hope they dont encrypt the channels like they do in other markets.

Watching this helps me realize: I'm so lucky where I'm at in Portland that I have a super cheap antenna that I _could_ just lay it on the floor and _still_ have really high quality signal. I've also got fiber and have been using YTTV for a while but, considering recent price hikes, has me *strongly* considering alternatives considering how little I even use YTTV these days! (and I don't watch sports on TV)

We cut the cord years ago and have never looked back. Saved hundreds of dollars a year. We live outside of town and receive 50 channels without any signal problems.

Enjoyed your video! I just duck taped a Mohu Premium Pro indoor antenna on a window and all my channels came in crystal clear. I have heard outdoor antenna`s have problems in the wind and rain. Just have to figure out the best DVR so I can watch on my own schedule and skip thru the commercials. Glad I stumbled upon your channel!

I have a 100 mile outside antenna that I put up at 25ft. It works pretty good and I have guy wires of 18 gauge steel that are designed for high winds since here in Florida we get Hurricanes! I would like to add an ATSC 3.0 tuner to my TV since it doesn't have the newer tuner. I have been waiting for someone to come out with a lower priced tuner since I don't want to pay $200 for one. I was hoping this spring they would be on the market so I'm keeping my eyes open for one. I get good signals now but I have a little trouble sometimes with my 2 VHF channels which are CBS and NBC. Otherwise it works pretty good. I also have a preamp on my antenna and I have it set on the lower setting and I could put it on the higher setting but I don't want to have too strong of signals for the strong channels that I receive. I see that the newer standard works much better than the older one so that is why I want it!

I think it is better to keep the pole short so that the wind effect is very weak, but if you use a long pole, the slightest wind will take the pole off the roof. It is similar when you want to lift a stone with a long pole.

I have this antenna, a recommendation from antenna man, I get all channels possible to me 41. I'm very happy with it. Only thing I dont like is I cant pick up a single channel that is 75 miles away during the day.

Hey buddy I get over 80 channels with a RCA indoor antenna. A lot of the channels I don't watch but I get them. I live in New York City.

I hope you have that coax from the antenna going thru a ground block so it's grounded to earth. Being that high up can be attracted to lighting. Wouldn't want that coming in and blowing the homerun boxes or even getting to your switch and take that out. Having a bonding on any aerial antenna very important

Let's go, it still baffles me how most people these days don't know about OTA TV. Cable/Satellite really blinded a whole generation or 2.

Hello fellow New Englander. I'm from Ct too. Originally. I like how you run all your TV channels over your network. I'd do that for recording and use an old PC as a DVR. I like that comet channel. Sometimes they play all of those wierd B movies and the X files.

Glad it's still working! Hopefully we won't need to climb up there any time soon.

that feeling when you're so rural you'd need an ariel beam just to get one PBS station according to the site lon is directing people to.

Here where I am in Canada I am lucky to get 4 OTA channels. With a larger anntenna it would probably a whopping 6 channels. I usually only use 1 of the channels for local news and that is it. Do not watch network programming.

I have been using the Telivis Data boss mix for about a year. It is an awesome antenna. I have mine on a tower up about 42 feet. I don't have any atsc 3 channels in my area but. I will be prepared when we get them. Our closest broadcaster is about 45 miles away. I am getting 36 channels now. Hopefully we will get some more soon. The only one I have trouble with is Fox and it is about 60 miles away but it comes in at night.

04/16/23. I just installed this exact antenna here in Six Lakes Michigan and I got 73 channels.

This is the best antenna picks up UHF channels you can get witm amplifier of course i got the same !

did you ground the antenna properly ? from the pic u can only see the coaxel u can ground the antenna metal and the coaxel tip , it will keep signal safe plus from lighting

I get around the same amount of OTA channels with my puny indoor antenna. Looking forward to a roof antenna soon.

I'm lucky I'm in a major market. Most of my transmitters are on a mountain about 6 miles LOS west of me. Unfortunately there are a few transmitters in almost the opposite direction and about 25 miles away. I just use a smaller roof(2 story) mast mounted antenna pointed to the distant transmitters to better able to pull them in. I've also connected the antenna feed to the coax(RG6) that used to carry my Xfinity video signal so all the bedrooms have access to the antenna signals. Bedroom TVs can view either OTA channels or using ROKUs view my Tablo Quad. I haven't branched out to ATSC 3.0 yet however all the majors have NextGen TV.

Thank you for your excellent video. I assume someone already mentioned that the indoor part shown is not an amplifier but rather a PSU or Power Supply Unit, also known as a power injector for the antenna's internal preamp.

Of those 62 channels probably only about 12-16 are worth watching. I get 16 channels which is all that is available in my area on a $10 indoor antenna. Half are junk. But to be fair there are not many channels on cable worth much either.

That antenna almost looks like something used at a CATV head-end. I have an amplified leaf type antenna in my north-northwest 2nd floor window that I picked up years ago from Costco (I don't think they haven them anymore). This is the only one I've found of this type that really does anything. It was a total shock when I first put it up. I'm in northern Middlesex county in CT and I get 68 channels on my ATSC 1.0 set. My channel list is similar to yours, although I'm surprised to not see WHCT-LD 35 in your list as it's on the "fox 61" tower over on Rattlesnake mountain or WRNT-LD 32, which is on Deercliff road in Avon. I'll post my list with each station (by PSIP) and the number of sub-channels in the least obtrusive way (I hope): 03 WFSB (4), 08 WTNH (2), 19 WRDM (2), 20 WCCT (4), 22 WWLP (4), 24 WEDH (3), 26 WHPX (8), 27 WWAX (5), 30 WVIT (4), 32 WRNT (7), 35 WHCT (8), 40 WGGB (3), 57 WGBY (4), 59 WCTX (2), 61 WTIC (5), 65 WEDY (3). Of course some of these are guest stations on other hosts (which would make for a whole new post due to the way they put all the main stations on the WCCT ATSC 3.0 transmitter and took WCCT's ATSC 1.0 programming and spread it out on the sub channels of other transmitters. This list remains pretty consistent with a few exceptions: WGGB & WGBY tend to have summertime issues with WGGB being the worst since they moved to OTA 26, they used to be perfect years ago on the temporary OTA 55 & later OTA 40. WTNH also was spotty at times, but I think the transmitter was also moved to Rattlesnake now as well, and I rarely have problems with them now. With that change, most of these stations are in the right direction for my northern-ish window. I may attempt this with an outdoor antenna one day, but if I do, I want directional as I miss the number of channels I used to be able to get in the analog days (basically, all of CT, RI, Most of MA, southern parts of VT, NH, ME, Most of NYC, Albany, part of Philly, and many in between). I also miss the analog DX. On a good day, I used to be able to get stations in the mid-west. I have yet to do any since digital, I know it can be done, it just doesn't seem to work for my current setup.

Question for you: A few brief clips in the video show the TV screen with menus (in addition to the program your watching): are those menus generated by the HD Home Run box, the ATSC 3 broadcast, a ATSC 3 specific television, or ??? I've got a basic SMART TV that's 8 years old (?) but am not able to bring up any menus or programming guides like I see you have. I can walk through the apps (like pluto TV or Tubi TV) with the up/down/left/right arrows on the basic TV remote, but that's it. Maybe a secondary remote control is needed to access and manipulate those menu selections> Antenna location. You could also try putting the antenna in your attic. I did that and it worked great. Just make sure there's no metal in the way; no metal-foil roof insulation, no metal HVAC ductwork in the way, and my home's wood roof with asphalt shingles doesn't seem to degrade performance even when its raining. I'm in the Los Angeles area, all the stations broadcast from the same area (Mt. Wilson above Pasadena) and I've got a straight & clear 40-mile sight line to those antennas. 60+ channels.

I have an antenna also and it’s great. My only recent concern, according to the Antenna man, is that these channels are starting to be encrypted!

I am surprised that it was hard for you to find someone to install an outdoor antenna. To be honest I am surprised that more people are not using outdoor antennas to watch television.

I live over 63 miles away from the tv transmitters. An installer issue I'm having is they want to install their own antenna. One of them even hung up on me when I mentioned the Televes Antenna. Have you experienced any ATSC 3.0 audio or encryption issues? What poles/mast are you using? Love your videos.

Try bypassing the amp and see what your signal quality is. The amp might be over driving the signals.

this is interesting but not alot of the main channels in nyc doing ATSC 3.0 yet

I live in az. Between PHX. An Tucson mountains both ways about 40 to 50 miles .

Your setup mirrors mine, except my antennas are in the attic. Just FYI, the second RF feed from the power unit loses about 3 dBa, which roughly equals what you would get with a two way splitter. I have one going to my den TV, the other one going to my HDHomerunFlex 4K.

Is antenna TV in the US not as common as cable/satellite/subscription TV services? What you call antenna TV we would generally call free to air TV or broadcast TV here in Australia. Here, subscription TV services do exist, the biggest one is Foxtel, but I'd say most houses built over the past 5 or 6 decades have roof mounted antennas, of course not all do, but most do.

Putting up a TV antenna reminds me of the Lucy Ball video that showed her and Ethel putting up a new antenna. Advance it to 12:40 and you'll see how she gets it tangled with the power lines. Good video on the challenges of installing an antenna. Go to 16:00 to see how antennas were adjusted in the old days! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bMudnNKr3tzDdnk.html

I was under the impression that analog TV got shut down many many years ago so I'm surprised that antennas are able to pick up this many stations in 2022.

Love my antenna set up but I haven’t upgraded to a stand alone tuner like the Homerun for one MAJOR reason: service fees for the DVR. I can go to Walmart and buy a $35 tuner that lets me record to external hard drive for free why should I pay a monthly or annual fee to another service provider?

Hello Lon, I live in Norwich, CT. I have been using the Hd home run ATSC 1.0 tuner for over a year now. I have had hardware issues with the HDhome run, which HD Home run has replaced twice. I am on the fringe of Hartford and Providence. I recently upgraded to the televis antenna , with a positive result on signal reliable from Hartford Fox&NBC.WFSB CH3 is intermittent and unwatchable. I also receive NBC and ABC intermittently from Providence. I am hesitant about upgrading my HD Home run to ATSC 3.0 . To help me understand the possibility of receiving the 4 CT local affiliates, which from your video ,I take it are in the same tower location.I am wondering what area of CT are you located? You do not have to reveal the town you live in ,I'm only looking for a general location. Thanks Larry T.

With the HD Homerun box do you have to pay an extra amount for the guide? Tivo charges something like $400 for their systems. Thats just the guide charge.

Do you get all available channels in your area Lon ??

2023 DEC HEADS UP SAW ON WPIX NYC REWING TV AND WPIX 11 BOTH MOVING TO ATSC 3.0 NO UPDATE ON ANTENNA TV METV

Welcome to the club bub!

Televes antennas with BOSS Tech is great antennas.

My tv aerials are in the loft no problems here

I have 6 towers clustered 4 & 5 miles away. I get lots of channels with a $12 Philips rabbit ears indoor antenna.

I lost my internet the other day and I figured just watch tv over my antenna. My new smart Vizio tv won’t allow me to watch the antenna input without internet. It forces me to use Vizio Smart cast which needs internet to work. I’ve been reading that that are now pushing Next Gen tuners in TV’s that require internet to work.

MAY 2023 I ve attempted silicon dust and zapper box I have the smaller televees antenna both zapperbox and silicon dust kept crashing zapperbox atsc 3.0 no dvr for another 6 months.. had to keep formatting my zapper box to keep in atsc 3.0 recent weeks my ota signals were breaking up alot had 80 ch s now 54 then back to 69.. channels 69 useless channels metv plus wzme tv 43 kept breaking up normally never dose every so ofter wwor would kick off 60 miles away shared wiuth RF 25 PBS 25 IS why still no antenna tv metv for nyc connecticut market,..ota still kept the antenna to watch some not on cable catchy tv network for one tried tablo tried tivo edge.... all failed .....such a weird market.. had the FCC never started sharing or selling channels to cell companies tv would be fine ...they must loose money by going free....cant say... now they want to encrypt ..... yeesh.. too stressfull expensive if he loves his wife lol dont rid of cable lol....your wife wont be happy..

I've been trying to setup an SDR and an app called Spektrum to use as a spectrum analyzer for adjusting an antenna. Is that something you could look into.

Would be nice if the links you mention in the video were in the description.

WPXQ seems to come in off-axis for many of us. I don't turn the antenna to get it, as the Boston mirror seems to bring the same assortment.

can we have an re scan updated live scan love to see if there still there... on the smaller version antenna I have recieve 86 to 92 channels atsc 3.0 nyc ct market ADTH 3.0 tuner verry sensitive...

TV reception, ham radio? You seriously need a 40' Rohn tower. You wont regret it.

Baltimore locked up almost all the primary and sub-channels of their broadcast antennas within the city limits (2, 11, 13, 24, 35 and 54). The HD HomeRun CONNECT 4K doesn’t (yet?) decode these channels. For the premium price of this box, it is very disappointing.

Lon' they need to figure out the perfect antenna for people in Apartments who cannot install outside antennas. I would guess that at least 75% of the residents in Florida are in apartments. Sure, we can stream but we all know how Piggish Comcast is with their internet prices and how much more they charge for Unlimited Data so streaming is not a very good option. I asked Tyler this about 3 times and never once has he replied.

FEB 2024 TELEVEES SMART COM 3 WAY ANTENNA SPLITTER REQUEST can you do a video on smart com 3 way antenna splitter antennaman never did can you please do a video on that before I decide to buy one need to see it work

Hey Lon. I’m curious what you ended up using for a mast?

Let us know if your networks apply DRM to their signals

Can you provide instructions on how to get to the HDHomeRun Config GUI you showed at about 9 minutes? I have a HDHomeRun Flex 4k and I'd love to check some signal strength when I test out different antenna locations. But I can't seem to find that, or instructions to find it.

Any 4k content seen yet?

Great video, Thanks for updating and all the great info. Question if you don't mind. My local NBC channel has switched to nextgen tv. But does that mean my local towers have changed over as well? or does each tower need new equipment before the signal can transmit the next gen tv? thanks in advance

Any update on transcoding the audio from the ATSC 3.0 broadcasts?

After the old right things.

Looks like I can only get five ATSC 3.0 channels. Looks like it's not worth upgrading the antenna yet nor buying a 3.0 tuner

So will this one hdhomerun flex work on 4 tvs?

An what kind of antana is good

ThanksMuch!

I’m in the valley near Hartford never can get channel 8 maybe that’ll change

Now how do you do this in Australia with a foxtel satellite dish (and wall plugs)

Unfortunately, a lot of HOA's look down on and even prohibit the use of outdoor antennas.

Last I checked, DISHtv will come out and install an OTA antenna for $150

What about a retractable pole where you can move it down when it’s really windy…sure something like that is out there somewhere

FEB 2024 hi how can you get 62 channels ?.... my sister lives in oxford connecticut 42 miles away from wfsb 3 used my smal televees dat mix antennaman suggested only 5 weak channels...happen.. two tv fire tv insignia and samsung samsung no results insignia 5 weak new haven ch ?? no fox 61 wfsb 3 ??, my sister was forced to paramount plus why this was impossible for her not you we tried all directions even outside on deck away from mountain..

Still no WTNH (ABC Connecticut)?

Hi Lon, traveling a similar path try to take advantage OTA. I’m located near New London and am experimenting w HDHOMERUN & Televes per Antennaman. Any other options for help w antenna installations here in CT?

Has Plex fixed the no audio problem with ATSC 3?

what does ATSC MEAN ??

Nice video! Why do you have two HD Homerun tuners?

Ok, how do you hook it up so it connects to the cable?

How much is all that home run stuff?

Hello. I'm happy for you, but I feel bad, because you got that giant antenna, plus you have to paid your friend to help put it up there, for only 62 channels. What hope for me if I'm force to use only indoor antennas. Smh. Give me some suggestions on indoor antennas

Step 1.. Find a high school contractor buddy who can help you install the antenna ...

Can the channels your receiving with the home run boxes be watched anywhere on the internet. I used to have a couple Slingboxs and we know they disappointed all their uses by ending their servers.

wait until DRM takes hold....

Why not hire the AntennaMan to mount the whole thing?

special weird request on nice weather day I would love to see this antenna reverssed direction I m curious as hell what would come in or not opossite direction

My name is Wayne dietsch man I need some help to set up my hdhomerun I need advice how to use a computer or smartphone will you get back to me thank you

Are you picking up any of the 4K channels?

Is this a recent thing in USA? Isn't in Europe a common knowledge you can get free basic channels from terrestial antenas? I think even cable companies have to provide you free channels.

Millions of Americans live in apartments. So your set up is impossible. Do you have any suggestions for those of us that are interested in ATSC 3.0 that live in apartments. I live in an apartment and my solution for over the air is. Subscribing to Paramount plus, Peacock, and Hulu. You get all the prime time programming on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox the next day. And then have Sling for other channels. And I get it all for less than $50 a month. And I don’t have to worry about weather problems.

I would have installed that thing in the attic so its hidden.

Is it not normal to have over the air tv in the US? / not wide spread? oof really is ran by money cow cable companies

you dont mention it but I betchya like me you loose 62 channels to 50 or 47

Hope none of your atsc3.0 channels are owned by Hearst. They are encrypting those channels now.

I’d like to cut the cord on KZfaq TV due to their price hike, but can’t get Foxnews & CNN over the air.