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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Interesting..
So if you had some coax you could probably just strip back a few feet of the sheathing and just coil it up or something to create an antenna...
MG1, if you’re interested I could whip up something like a coaxial end on a long length of coax or something, on the house.
To tune into the channels do you just go to the cable input and flip around or what?
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Yeah, I used coax that I only terminated at one end. A properly crimped/compression terminated cable would be fully shielded. I don't remember if I shorted the core against the shielding, as I was using quad shielded cable at the time.
You'd need to put your tv into over the air or antenna mode. You do a channel scan, option in the setup menu. Once the tv knows what stations you can pick up, they're saved to memory, and you can select the channels like you do normally.
To get an efficient antenna, your need a wire length that's related to the wavelength of the frequency you want to get. Longer isn't always better.
The problem with picking up all the channels is getting good angles to the transmitters. I think ctv/global/ cbc transmit from My Seymour or Cypress? There's two directions on the north shore you need to pick up for the stations from what I remember. It's been a while since I messed around with ota signals.
That said, I would usually do it during playoff season for cbc hockey. If you think cable hd is clear, you should see it ota uncompressed. Bell express vu compresses the least from what I remember ~30%? Shaw/Telus 40-50%% Depends on the channel and the programming.
When I had expressvu, bell would always put extra bandwidth for the Superbowl. If you watched other channels like HGTV during the game, it was compressed to shit.