Norfolk, VA - OTA - Page 221

13.3 MeTV went live at Noon on the 23rd.

I guess I looked too early yesterday. PQ looks decent...

I agree, it looks okay to me. It scanned in fine on my two Panasonic plasmas and my Westinghouse LED but for some reason I had to scan four times to get it to show on my Vizio LED. I'm just happy to have another OTA choice.

Has anyone in this area tried the Mohu Leaf antennas? They get pretty stellar reviews, I'm very tempted to give one a try.
http://www.gomohu.com/

That is mighty expensive for a UHF antenna. It looks cool, but that's not needed.
Don't get caught up in the "HDTV" antenna marketing ploy.
HDTV is all UHF.
All you need is a simple UHF antenna.
$30.00 or under should get u what u need.
Check Solid Signals selection.
http://www.solidsignal.com/cview.asp?mc=03&d=over-the-air-tv-antennas-supplies&m=&c=TV%20Antennas&page=1

If you want an inexpensive double bowtie, then the Eagle Aspen DB2 is usually on sale on Amazon around $12. It is a good basic UHF antenna. The Mohu also performs well, but the novelty there is that it is paper thin so it is easy to hide. And they also make an amplified version.

I'm not caught up in the hype and have tried all manor of antennas including the $9 set of rabbit ears I bought 25 years ago, that one actually does a pretty decent job on the TV in my garage. I get pretty good results with most antennas but I have a lot of trouble maintaining solid reception with the VHF channels (13-WVEC and 4-WSKY) even with amplified units. I went ahead today and picked up the Mohu Leaf Ultimate at Sam's Club for $55. I'd never seen this antenna sell for less than $69 before so I jumped on it. I set it up tonight and it's easily the best indoor antenna I have ever owned. All my locals come in rock solid with no dropouts or interference. I can finally get reliable reception on WVEC and WSKY without having to adjust and move the antenna. I just pinned this thing on the wall and that's it, it even picks up all those religious channels (21.1 - 21.5) that I could never get before. I'm going to pick up a couple more of these. If anyone wants one you can pick it up at Sam's.
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/mohu-amplified-antenna/prod8290705.ip?navAction=

Nope.

TV Broadcasting still uses VHF. In the US, abut 75% of full-power broadcasters are UHF, the rest are VHF with about 3 dozen on low VHF, channels 2-6.

You have to look at the channels in use in any particular area in order to determine what type of antenna is required. In Norfolk, for example, your ABC affiliate operates on VHF channel 13. Additionally, there are four other stations in the immediate area licensed to operate on VHF channels. You have to do your homework before recommending antennas.

The Leaf is a UHF design, but, in areas with strong enough signals, will work for VHF to some degree as it's too small electrically to be efficient on those longer wavelengths. YMMV.

You are completely correct, VHF lives on. According to the manufacturer, the Leaf antennas do work for VHF frequencies in addition to UHF though at shorter distances than UHF. In my location, it works perfectly for both. I am very happy with my Leaf Ultimate.

Does anyone know if there's a problem with some towers tonight? Around midnight I got "no signal" messages on all three of my TVs for WTKR (3), WTVZ (33), and WPXV (49). Each TV is connected to a different indoor antenna. Fortunately, I have plenty of shows to watch on my DVR.

Sounds like it could be a tower site issue, all 3 of those are on the same tower and site.

They were working when I woke up in the morning so I guess they figured it out.

Local TV stations WTKR, WGNT reportedly for sale

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/03/local-tv-stations-wtkr-wgnt-reportedly-sale

The Paper finally got around to reporting this? The news is six days old...

I noticed this today too, I had the same thought.

Not all HDTV is UHF, Norfolk market has 3 full power VHF stations, and one mid-LPTV station.
Not meaning to restart an old discussion, but my app reader just reset to older posts.