New York, NY - OTA - Page 421

kb you like my moniker --- Over the air reception is a lot like slice of pizza
get it while is hot. its a tribute to you, your always telling trip, that your gonna get him a pizza pie or 2 when he comes to nyc. lol

There are only two, well Three pizza places I would ever go to for the BEST NYC pizza. Not sold by the slice in any of these places. Pies only.

NO I am not talking about ORIGINAL RAYS. Where they have 20 or so stores all claiming to be the original. lol But the tourists love RAYS. That is where I send people I hate. lol

You guys are EXPERTS on OTA. I am on pizza

Could you post a link and how you plan on putting an extra antenna. Splitter? Won't you lose 3 db of signal?


Is this for the outside or inside?

thats funny, lol

i heard some pizza place on second avenue in the 90's is the best, the name allude me now.

here is one link that i just found but basically you need a long wire size of frequency band, which is 8 ft total length.

http://nathan.chantrell.net/old-stuf...ipole-antenna/

is doesnt look difficult i try this weekend, i get some old tv flat cable wire, and splice in the middle like indoor fm dipole, you probably seen the ribbon wire that you attach to your fm stereo, basically thats it.

indoors, but you can try outside

Ok this is not the thread to talk about pizza, But I will give you the three names and if you want to talk about it further or ask me questions. Feel free to pm me

1) (Totonnos) http://www.totonnos.com/Aboutus.html

2) (John's) http://www.yelp.com/biz/johns-pizzeria-new-york-4

3) (Lombardi's) http://firstpizza.com/

Now both John and Totonno worked for Lombardi's in the early 1900's then around 1930 opened there own places from what they learned at Lombardi's which opened 1905.
Very interesting if you ask me. I put them in order of which I like best. Others will agree or disagree. Each place has a loyal fan base all claim their favorites are the best. Bottom line is you can not go wrong with either of these places. All use Coal to cook pizza in 5 minutes. Coal inside the oven next to pizza.

Also Interesting is that Totonnos original place was in Conney Island (still there) AND John's original store is Bleeker st. They both opened a few more places that are nicer inside with same pizza recipe's.

Well I hope the Admins do not mind. As I said pm me for more info or questions. You guys shared so much with me. I will share with you my expertise lol

How do you know it will work for channel 2?

Cablevision carries the subs of most, but not all of the local stations.

Yes the station is korean

And i think it might be the converter box. Since my grandma can receive the channel. Im starting to hate converter boxes. They do stupid things

Yes we have 3 different brands and they all do stupid things. I like the dishpal. Not because it is error proof. I think it is the worst. BUT it adds new stations and subs automatically. So for example 11.3 THIS TV or 45.1 Came on by themselves. I did not have to call my aunt and walk her thru a rescan. Which is hard for her. I am not sure any other box does this?
But because it is prone to freezes. I put it on a power strip next to TV. So no bending for her. Just turn on and off once a few months when it freezes. The dishpal DVR seems more stable for her.

While not a NYC cable company (it's a NW NJ cable company) Service Electric carries all of the WNET subs, but none of the others, except for WTBY's subs but they don't actually carry WTBY. Instead they carry the national TBN, JCTV and SOAC feeds, on the expanded basic (digital) tier.

don't my me asking, you get your internet thru same operator? whats your internet speed?

I've read another one your old post i think it was canadian ota site, talkin about antenna design someone mention that wade parabolic goes for 3 grand, you replied for that price it oughta bring you a beer and cigarette when you want one. lol

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html#hour24 Intense tropo for next couple of days for east coast. should'nt be a shocker with this heat wave we're experiencing lately

kb i ran to snag with the antenna for ch 2 it wouldnt work lol

What happened?

I do, and the speed is 30Mbit/2Mbit. This is the DOCSIS3 tier at $70/month. It used to be $80/month... but I need the speed so I suck it up and pay. 10M/1M costs $42/month. Modem lease included, but if you use your own modem they don't reduce the price. So I don't. I use theirs.

Their network seems pretty reliable (probably due to the low population density here) but the only problem is that they have caps, which are 100GB per month on the 30M tier... 60GB per month on the 10M tier. They are the only game in town apart from Embarq DSL (5M down here) so they get away with it.

On the flip side, TV doesn't seem to cost too much.... $65.95 for expanded basic which includes everything except a few of what I refer to as "boutique" channels (Fox sports, Disney XD, MTV/VH1 extra channels, Nickelodeon extra channels etc). Equipment wise the first digital box is free (standard def) and I own two of my CableCARDs (S-Cards) so I pay no rental on them. The third CableCARD (M-Card) is for my new Ceton InfiniTV 4 quad tuner MOCUR and costs $3/month.

Customer service wise? They could do better on the phone support because they only have people available by phone from 8AM to 6:30PM. After that you get an answering service which is close to useless. All they ever seem to do is to tell me to unplug and replug the power to the equipment. But if you have a serious problem such as no service at all (tree fell on wire etc) they can dispatch an oncall tech... But I've had problems where I was able to talk to escalation support and they were very supportive and helpful and sent techs to my house to diagnose and fix issues.

They're a family owned cable company, first in the nation actually. John Walson was the guy who put an antenna up on a mountain in Pennsylvania and ran a cable to his appliance store and connected people along the way. Now his sons and daughter own it.


I don't think that was me.

i got twcnyc 10/512 i pay $46 month it sucks i don't even get 3 mbs had turbo free for 3 months to tried it i didnt notice an increase in speed in any way, and to top it off they tried to hike up my bill for another $10 month, twc is worst imho, they have doc3 but they want your first born. fios can't get here fast enough. the us invented the internet we were numero uno back in 2000. gw bush didnt give a hoot about broadband infrasture, but i really think it was riaa who lobbied not too push broadband speeds (music piracy) any higher. bunch of greedy folks always about the money

If you think this admin cares about broadband, think again. Their plan is simply a means to hand over TV spectrum and $timulu$ to their telco and cable lobbyist buddies.

i need to get some insulator for antenna wiring. the way i design the antenna it was out of phase, i don't know if eventually this rig will work, being that channel 2 frequency is on low vfh. which has lots of interference and noise, additionally i have the antenna indoors, which really hinders me it should be outside to get as far away from noise as possbile. is hit or miss at best

ps wkob has to move to rf 42 or they gonna go broke

to paraphase the fonz i think you're correcto mondo.

I just did a scan, and now I get 52.1 WNJT-DT out of Trenton.

cool, any philly stations, coming in yet i'm getting wsah 43 w/ indoor antenna, someone on hartford forum mention earlier that wedw ch 49 bridgeport, there is a new sub channel 49-3 i have not checked yet. could it be retrotv ? lol

subchannel of WEDW is "create"..same as WLIW. If they add something else it will be other PBS programming either VME or Kids which is already carried by WNET.

they would go broke IF they move to channel 42 just from paying the higher power bill. this is a B.S. station looking to get carriage on cable. they know their OTA station will reach no one. unless TWC picks them up they will be out of business in months.

L&B Spumoni Gardens makes the best pizza (square slices) I have ever eaten. - http://spumonigardens.com/home.html

Difara in Midwood has a excellent reputation. http://www.difara.com/

I've had it and while it was good, it didn't really stand out.


Nanuet Hotel pizza (thin crust) is also excellent pizza. (Rockland County, NY)

i was kidding about retrotv, they allready have create on 49-2 btw, the pq is horrible, unlike wliw create, which is broadcast with more bandwith,i was hoping they add pbs encore.

Actually, I have never ever eaten pizza, though I like only the bread on oven with pigs grease and garlic and salt, uuhmmm.
But invite Trip, he would love it or R.F. Burns, he seems to be expert on pizza as you are, enjoy

last night i was receiving wkob channel 2 thru my uhf antenna direct xg91, never tried to pickup channel 2 thru this antenna before would another xg91 user can confirm if does normally receive low vhf. or was it a one time deal. ty