Cord Cutting in Tulsa

[sgrizzle]

That's my problem. I'm on a computer 55 hours a week. When I get home. The last thing I want to do is jack with a computer. But that's just me.

Only 55 hours? You must have quite the thriving social life

[DolfanBob]

Only 55 hours? You must have quite the thriving social life

That's why Television is my primary entertainment. I feel I'm getting old. Lord help me if I start watching Lawrence Welk reruns.

[heironymouspasparagus]

That's why Television is my primary entertainment. I feel I'm getting old. Lord help me if I start watching Lawrence Welk reruns.

Could be worse - you could have had to watch them when first shown....live!

[DolfanBob]

Could be worse - you could have had to watch them when first shown....live!

That's the deal. Every time we went to my Grandparents house on Sunday. He was live and in color. But he was wunerful, wunerful!

[Townsend]

That's the deal. Every time we went to my Grandparents house on Sunday. He was live and in color. But he was wunerful, wunerful!

Try watching it now.  It's a whole new ballgame when you realize how crazy it is.

If you partake...it makes it worth an afternoon.

There's a particular one where a young, pretty girl and this older lecherous dude with a pornstache are singing "would you have my baby"...you can see the disgust on her face having to sing with him.  It's classic. 

Don't knock the Welk.

[heironymouspasparagus]

That's the deal. Every time we went to my Grandparents house on Sunday. He was live and in color. But he was wunerful, wunerful!

Ahhh....you got in after the switch...  from B & W to color...lucky you!

[sauerkraut]

I still have a working B&W TV set that my parents bought in 1970. It's a Zenith 21" screen. Metal cabinet and it's full of tubes. It works well but the picture tube must be getting weak it takes it awhile to reach full brightness.

[DolfanBob]

An interesting article on Variety website.

http://variety.com/2015/tv/opinion/lifetime-movie-club-ott-hbo-now-1201533338/

[AngieB]

On a whim, we picked up an Amplified Indoor Antenna to see what we could get without cable. I've moved the antenna all over the place, pointed it different directions, and no matter what I do, I can't get channel 8! KTUL is even the closest station to us...their transmitter is on the hill, right? What the heck?

[Hoss]

On a whim, we picked up an Amplified Indoor Antenna to see what we could get without cable. I've moved the antenna all over the place, pointed it different directions, and no matter what I do, I can't get channel 8! KTUL is even the closest station to us...their transmitter is on the hill, right? What the heck?

Nope, KTUL transmits from Coweta, like most of the other big 3.

[AngieB]

Well, poo. I don't get it. 2 & 6 come in perfectly.

[Red Arrow]

On a whim, we picked up an Amplified Indoor Antenna to see what we could get without cable. I've moved the antenna all over the place, pointed it different directions, and no matter what I do, I can't get channel 8! KTUL is even the closest station to us...their transmitter is on the hill, right? What the heck?

Channel 8 is just a bit closer to Coweta than the other towers.  The change in direction from west Tulsa should be insignificant.  Indoor antennas are susceptible to walls and other objects in your home so moving it about and pointing is a good first attempt.  I put an amplified antenna in the attic with better success than in the living room.  It feeds into the splitter we used for Cox to also feed the TV in the master bedroom.  Occasionally the picture gets some big pixel looking blotches and the sound gets garbled for a few seconds.  The antenna is supposed to be omni-directional but it still likes to be pointed just a bit. I get most of the channels except 47.  I can get 47 by twisting the antenna a bit but then I loose another channel (I forget which one right now) that I want to watch more than 47.  I live near 111th & Memorial at the north end of Bixby.

Follow the BA/Tpk from Tulsa to Coweta. The two tall blue pointy things are the antenna farm which includes Ch6.  The tall blue pointy thing with the shorter inverted "V" closer to Coweta is Ch8.
http://vfrmap.com/?type=vfrc&lat=36.175&lon=-96.152&zoom=10

[sgrizzle]

If I get 2 and 6, I get 8. I have flaky luck with 44, but it's pretty much the opposite direction of everything else.

In a valley, I found better luck with unidirectional over directional antenna. I also got the $50 Tivo.

[TeeDub]

I got 2, 6, 11, 23, 41 just by going out to the cox cable box and unplugging their cable. (Careful not to unplug the cable modem.)   Apparently there was a lot of antenna action and bleed in my old coax.

Once I put an antenna on it, I get everything pretty well now (although it still gets angry about 8 sometimes).   I blame that on being behind the bass pro hill.

[DolfanBob]

Analog signal penetrated structures better and antennas worked just fine in the attic. After the switch to digital the signal travels further but has less ability to penetrate things like the good old analog did. I also have an off air antenna but I put it outside on a pole at the end of the house and I pick up signal perfect. 17, 53, 19 and maybe a couple of other channels I don't receive very well because their tower is the opposite direction of Broken Arrow and I can't justify tying in a UHF only antenna just to pick them up since I get them on "SATELLITE TV" already. Well not 17 but who cares?