Hey ya'll,
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I am 20 miles east of Marion, IL and about 8 miles west of Harrisburg, IL.
Perhaps someone could offer an opinion as to a useful antenna option(s), please? Is there such a thing as an omni-directional for my situation, or will i need a rotator?
If I have to put an TV antenna up for the television, I may as well put up an outdoor FM antenna for my AM/FM stereo receiver , so if you have knowledge on that subject and can offer a recommendation, that would be great. I presume I would want to run that FM connection in coax, yes?
Is there value in hanging some type of AM antenna outdoors, or is that unnecessary? I don't think I have an AM antenna on the receiver at the moment.
There is a threaded coax-looking connector on the back of the receiver that currently has a regular FM wire antenna with a push on adapter on it at present.
One last item, I have seen discussions regarding plugging in a cable tv connection and receiving whatever channels they are broadcasting in the clear. I have a cable coming into the house from a previous resident which goes out to a telephone pole. I have tried doing what was suggested, but there is no signal.
My TV is a LG 47LH90, just purchased last year. The tuners (I think that's what they are) listed are: NTSC-M, ATSC, 64 & 256 QAM
VHF 2-13, UHF 14-69, CATV 1-135, DTV 2-69, CADTV 1-135.
When I plug in the cable and let it run an auto-tune, it comes up with no channels. The cable does come from the pole, run down the side of the house, and then goes underneath and apparently to the other side where it comes up through the floor. I haven't actually checked the cable underneath to be certain it isn't cut, but I am going to do that.
My question is if it is uncut, is there something else I need to do? I suppose the test for whether or not there is available signal is the TV showing a picture.
Is that common for the CATV companies to leave a line for local channels with live signal? I should think it would be turned off at the pole, or can they not do that? If I could acess the local stuff this way, I would obviously do it if it is not illegal. It does not seem to be, from what I can tell.
This whole CATV point is probably moot, as it will probably turn out that there is no signal because it isn't turned on, when I finish checking the cable.
Thank you.