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Unread 09-09-2011, 05:32 PM
 
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Question Broadcast TV reception in Honolulu

I've cut the cable and downed the satellite. Just want to watch a little tv. Any one getting good reception of Honolulu broadcast TV from an indoor digital tv antenna? Am planning on buying a small digital tv and using an indoor antenna. I live in the Makiki area up-hill from the H1. How is your reception? Mahalo for any info.
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Unread 09-10-2011, 12:56 PM
 
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Do you have internet? Folks I know watch Hulu or streaming Netflix a lot more than broadcast.
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Unread 09-10-2011, 01:30 PM
 
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Smile Broadcast TV

Mahalo, Yea, I stream Netflix and find some news sites that offer content. I'd like to pick-up local news, some network and sports programming and local educational broadcasts from PBS and UH. What do you think?
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Unread 09-10-2011, 01:30 PM
 
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I've cut the cable and downed the satellite. Just want to watch a little tv. Any one getting good reception of Honolulu broadcast TV from an indoor digital tv antenna? Am planning on buying a small digital tv and using an indoor antenna. I live in the Makiki area up-hill from the H1. How is your reception? Mahalo for any info.
Can't really make a good guess, as I do not know just how far uphill from the H1 you are. Fox and ABC affiliates transmit from downtown and should be plenty strong enough, but CBS, NBC and PBS transmit from a 755m high mountaintop northwest of town, and one ridge casts a "shadow" along a stretch along Manoa Road and eastward, blocking these channels.

Two websites you may find helpful are tvfool.com and rabbitears.info (I have no connection to either).

One more thing: When it comes to DTV reception with an indoor antenna, nothing can be assured. What may be a perfectly good signal outside your building can be ruined in "the last meter", having trouble getting in through a window, and bouncing around the walls inside the house when it does. If you aren't going to be placing your indoor antenna by a west-facing window, it may not be worth the bother to try, especially if you are in a concrete or metal structure.
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Unread 09-10-2011, 01:39 PM
 
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One more thought. As close to downtown as you are, it couldn't hurt to unfurl a paperclip, stick one end of it into the center of the "ANT/CABLE" jack on your set (assuming it is new enough to have a digital tuner), and do a channel scan, to see if you get ABC (KITV) on it!
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Unread 09-11-2011, 01:10 PM
 
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Thanks for the info. Aloha to you and yours on this day of memories.
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