[…]not owned by any retailer or manufacturer. Start Here In the left column below, enter or click the channels that you need. On the right, you’ll see the streaming services that offer those channels! ⇩ Powered […]
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[…]freezes up, try unplugging the antenna and powering it on again, especially if you live in the Los Angeles area. Also, I want to make a shout-out to Santa Monica TV Repair for their knowledge and honesty. They could have charged me $100 to come out and “fix” my TV! – […]
[…]Went Away Sometimes TV stations go away completely. This happened to a few stations here in Los Angeles, where the FCC allowed TV stations to auction off their spectrum to wireless providers. Usually, these are higher-numbered not-as popular stations as opposed to the major networks. Google the station’s call letters to see if you can find out what happened. Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do about this. 6. Your Antenna Moved – Try Re-Orienting It From my testing, I’ve found that even a small change in antenna position or angle can have a big impact on your reception. Try […]
[…]in one of these valleys, your reception will be poor. Next, let’s take a look at my home town of Los Angeles, CA, which lies in the basin between some fairly large mountains and a really crazy pattern: You can clearly see that the signal is pretty much stopped in its tracks to the north, where the mountains are. Also, you can see purple “shadows” where the smaller mountains are blocking the signal. Interestingly, there is a “shadow” just to the south of the transmitter where the mountain itself blocking the signal. In that area, the people live only a few miles […]
[…]still recommending the best ones. After all, what worked well in Providence might not work well in Los Angeles, right? The Antennas So, here’s what I’m calling the “great antenna shootout”. I’ve taken a representative selection of different types of indoor TV antennas and tested them in my condo. These are the ones I tested: These represent some of the most popular types of antennas from some of the leading antenna manufacturers. All are non-powered. Which was the best? My Testing Method In the past, I’ve taken a very clinical approach to testing, simply doing channel scans and recording the number […]
[…]of other channels, including my local CBS and NBC stations. What happened?? Well, I went on the Station Finder and noticed that my local CBS station, KCBS normally on channel 2.1 on my TV, had moved and had an RF channel of 34. Well, I know that modern TVs have the ability to map a channel’s physical RF channel to a different tuner channel on your TV to make it so the channel number you know and love never changes, even if the physical frequency changes. So, theoretically, I should have been able to see KCBS on channel 2.1, but […]
[…]Create Cooking and crafts 58.4 KLCS4 Local Broadcast TV stations in Santa Monica (near Los Angeles, CA) For more details on my personal indoor TV antenna setup (which antennas I use, and where I put them), see this article. How many channels can you get in your area? Please comment below – […]
[…]my Mohu Leaf (with RG-6 cable, not the included cable!). I checked the signal strength of my local Los Angeles ABC station, channel 7.1, because it is a Hi-VHF station which is sometimes tricky to pick up. On my signal strength meter, my Mohu Leaf registered 4 purple dots of strength, while the Antop HD Smart Bar got 5-6 dots, indicating a stronger signal. So far so good for the HD Smart Bar! Next, I did a channel scan with each antenna. The HD Smart Bar picked up 103 channels while the Leaf got 114 channels. While this seems like […]
[…]that setup should work for everyday web browsing. But, that means your Gateway is unnecessarily transmitting a Wi-Fi signal. It’s best to turn off Wi-Fi on your cube by accessing the Gateway at //192.168.0.1 and turning off both 5GHz and 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi. I actually used my cube for months like this and it was fine for regular web browsing. Passthrough Mode The ideal way to use your own router with the Verizon 5G gateway, however, is to put the gateway into Passthrough mode because it offers maximum compatibility with various ways to use your router (due to avoiding the “double […]
