{"id":2706,"date":"2012-11-07T23:58:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T06:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2012-11-07T23:58:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T06:58:54","slug":"setup-new-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=2706","title":{"rendered":"Setup New Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did it, comcast will not be my provider of television in a few weeks. \u00a0Just need to validate my setup and see how many TV&#8217;s I can push with this Antenna.<\/p>\n<p>I decided on the Channel Master Metrotenna (Sounds Windows 8ish) 4420MHD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CM-Metrotenna-4420MHD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2707\" title=\"CM-Metrotenna-4420MHD\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CM-Metrotenna-4420MHD.jpg\" alt=\"CM-Metrotenna-4420MHD\" width=\"329\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CM-Metrotenna-4420MHD.jpg 329w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CM-Metrotenna-4420MHD-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This antenna came with a mount.<\/p>\n<p>Set was easy, if I had all the tools with me from unbox to setup it would have taken less than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AttennaSetup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2708\" title=\"Antenna Setup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AttennaSetup.jpg\" alt=\"Antenna Setup\" width=\"336\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AttennaSetup.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AttennaSetup-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting it setup was easy compared to running the wire, I would say 50% of the time I took was running the wire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AntennaChannelResults.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2709\" title=\"AntennaChannelResults\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AntennaChannelResults.jpg\" alt=\"AntennaChannelResults\" width=\"448\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AntennaChannelResults.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AntennaChannelResults-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was done it found 32 channels, and this was with the antenna sitting in the living room 1st floor and a guess of the direction where I should point the antenna.<\/p>\n<p>I quick look and it had the channels I wanted, ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX, there were others that were familiar like PBS and RTV. \u00a0I am sure there were more.<\/p>\n<p>So here is the final price<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AntennaPurchase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2710\" title=\"AntennaPurchase\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AntennaPurchase.jpg\" alt=\"AntennaPurchase\" width=\"207\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AntennaPurchase.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/AntennaPurchase-138x300.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was 65.69 with tax, at one time that was less then a month&#8217;s Comcast bill, but remember, although some of the justification to do this was to reduce my bill (to nothing per month) , but to have the freedom to use my on HTPC.<\/p>\n<p>Finally note the time I purchased this, it was 8:11:57, if you look the post date of this blog its says 11:50 something, but it did not take me nearly four hours to set this up, for one thing, my blog is actually 1 hour advanced so it is actually nearly 11, also I had to drive home, look for cables, take the photos and type up this blog, so I would say it actually took less than 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I did hit the gym today, burned over 260 calories on the elliptical and benched the max on the machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it, comcast will not be my provider of television in a few weeks. \u00a0Just need to validate my setup and see how many TV&#8217;s I can push with this Antenna. 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