[jdemaris]

Anyone have any advice on how to convince my fiancee of this? We're broker than a stone right now, and one way I can see to help out and save about 60 or so bucks a month is to ditch cable

All you have to do to find out what is available free via a rooftop or pole-mount antenna is to go to www.tvfool.com. Put in your address and it will tell you exactly what is available in seconds for free. We live in a very rural area and the closest TV transmitter is 65 miles away. We get 8 main channels and over 20 sub-channels for free.

 

[jdemaris]

Here's an an example of a TVFOOL report I just got for a remote property we just bought in the Michigan UP. I am going there next week to install a 30 foot tall antenna. Report shows I will likely be able to get RF channels 2, 10, 8, and 24. That will amount to around 15 sub-channels if all goes well.

 

[Cap'n Preshoot]

Anyone have any advice on how to convince my fiancee of this? We're broker than a stone right now, and one way I can see to help out and save about 60 or so bucks a month is to ditch cable and get Netflix. Anyone who uses it can you tell me if these shows are on there:

Simpsons
Archer
Walking Dead
NCIS
My Little Pony

To me, "Eastern Kentucky" suggests a rural area and perhaps not within the mainstream of the culture. With a real outdoor antenna (not one of the miniature ones) hook it up to the TV and see how many channels you can get (you will have to rescan for your over-the-air channels). In major cities (I'm in suburban Houston, TX) I can get 60 channels over the air with a $20 antenna. The problem is that most of them (at least half) are foreign language stations and another 6 or so are religious stations. If you're out in the dingy weeds or somewhere in the mountains, you may need a *big* antenna along with a rotator & thus have to come out of pocket for several hundred $ to get set up. That may be a hurdle you're unprepared to jump over.

For you, getting rid of cable could save a lot but would mean that your little ones may have to make sacrifices and change their TV viewing preferences for the overall sake of the family unit. When times are tight, everyone has to be willing to part with something. I'm 70 now so it was a long time ago, but our 5 kids played outside when they were little & seldom watched TV except Sat'dy mornings.

 

[orangenomad]

need to read more past page 23

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