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Radio Free Amerika The ins and outs of the radio frequency spectrum, including scanners, trackers, building your own transmitters, mixers, and antennas, station formats, frequencies, favorite pirate radio stations, the FCC, radio stories, working at radio stations, and more.

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Old 2008-01-21, 20:34
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Question how to get local tv cheaply

i have a tv but no antenna, where can i get a cheap antenna, can i make one?
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Old 2008-01-22, 01:31
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Default Re: how to get local tv cheaply

You can get a pair of rabbit ears for next to nothing, but if you can't afford nothing, you can always just "ghetto engineer" an antenna out of wire hangars and tin foil
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Old 2008-01-24, 04:59
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Even with a nigger rigged Aluminum foil/coat hanger antenna you should be able to receive something.
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Old 2008-01-24, 22:44
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k thanks. will update with news about my white trash antenna.
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Old 2008-01-27, 00:36
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sweet, it worked!
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Old 2008-01-27, 23:19
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Did you ever doubt us?
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Old 2008-01-30, 23:23
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sweet, it worked!
How many chanels can you get with that shit.
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Old 2008-01-31, 02:44
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well, two. or more like one and a half. better than nothing
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Old 2008-01-31, 06:13
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yeah for real better than nothin.
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Old 2008-02-06, 05:14
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theres an old tv rooftop antenna in the woods next to my house. check your local dump or scrapyards. they should have plenty.
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Old 2008-02-11, 00:38
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local tv sucks ass
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Old 2008-02-11, 01:09
Otsego_Amigo Otsego_Amigo is offline
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yea i've learned that lol. good for the news and thats about it. i hate those bullshit csi shows.
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Old 2008-02-17, 08:13
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Fuck the fear mongering news, late night shows are where it's at with no cable. Or torrents if you have internet.

--Cr@sh
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Old 2008-02-24, 22:47
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You can get a pair of rabbit ears for next to nothing, but if you can't afford nothing, you can always just "ghetto engineer" an antenna out of wire hangars and tin foil


I believe the term is "Afro Engineer "
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Old 2008-02-27, 01:12
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I believe the term is "Afro Engineer "

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Old 2008-02-27, 10:41
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Nigger Rigged Mad

i was being PC but fuck it

nigger rig that shit
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Old 2008-02-28, 20:20
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what kind of internet do you have?
cable?
just get a wiresplitter and run a cable to your tv.

free basic cable.
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Old 2008-03-01, 01:10
Otsego_Amigo Otsego_Amigo is offline
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nah i have satellite. although that is a cool idea.
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Old 2008-03-12, 22:55
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i get 8 channels with my rabbit ears, but one of them is just christian shit all the time :(

btw, maybe this was discussed but as of february 2009, i believe you will need to come up with about $50 or so for a digital converter box, or you will not get your channel. all tv must be digital by february. you will be able to get a $40 coupon for a digital converter box but there are rules for it.
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Old 2008-03-12, 23:32
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Default Re: how to get local tv cheaply

I believe the term is "Afro Engineer "

Yes, I used the proper term of nigger rigging in the third post in this thread.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigger+rig
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Old 2008-03-13, 04:55
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i have a tv but no antenna, where can i get a cheap antenna, can i make one?


why would you waste your time with snowy local cable when you're on the dam internet. torrent/warez/streaming
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Old 2008-03-13, 10:21
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why would you waste your time with snowy local cable when you're on the dam internet. torrent/warez/streaming

It took you two and a half months to insult him?

Impressive. Delayed reaction, or just stupid?
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Old 2008-03-13, 22:50
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Default Re: how to get local tv cheaply

well i have satellite internet, which limits me to 300 megs a day. using torrents/streaming (combined with the other users in my home) would put me dangerously close. plus i want to watch the local 10 o clock news the old fashioned way.
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Old 2008-03-14, 02:33
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well i have satellite internet, which limits me to 300 megs a day. using torrents/streaming (combined with the other users in my home) would put me dangerously close. plus i want to watch the local 10 o clock news the old fashioned way.


Walter Cronkite isn't still on the air where you live, is he?
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Old 2008-03-17, 18:53
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http://tinyurl.com/37jkka My nigger rigged antenna. I can get 7 channels with it, including a completely useless Christian propaganda station.
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Old 2008-03-19, 21:57
3xplosive obs3sed 3xplosive obs3sed is offline
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If you really dont wanna pay shit, they tend to have these a lot at The Good Will, and Salvation Army type of places. Low security there too, cus I mean they dont really expect people to steal from these places, steal one from there.
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Old 2008-03-21, 19:04
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Fuck the fear mongering news, late night shows are where it's at with no cable. Or torrents if you have internet.

--Cr@sh


Better yet--PBS. Except for those interminable shows where they beg for money.
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Old 2008-03-30, 05:29
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Oh, yes. PBS kicks ass. It's like the discovery channel.

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Old 2008-04-01, 15:30
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check my thread on pirating sat. it pays it self well off in 1 month or 2 depending on the amount of porn / movies watched
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Old 2008-04-07, 13:02
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Why do you have to pay for local TV?
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Old 2008-04-11, 16:01
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Default Re: how to get local tv cheaply

Why not just buy/steal an antennae? It's not exactly diamonds were talking about.
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Old 2008-04-12, 06:28
Otsego_Amigo Otsego_Amigo is offline
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Default Re: how to get local tv cheaply

the cheapest one they had at radio shack was like 30 bucks.
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Old 2008-07-23, 23:27
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Many TVs have antennas built into them. Try this, get some coax cable, plug one end into the TV and touch the other end to some kind of metal. This actually works and we used this method for some time and picked up a few channels. If it works for you just tape it to a pop can or hanger and nail it up on the wall
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Old 2008-07-27, 05:09
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am I the first to say mabye amateur TV?
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Old 2008-07-28, 05:05
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Take apart the TV and use the case to put on puppet shows.

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Old 2008-08-27, 06:36
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Even with a nigger rigged Aluminum foil/coat hanger antenna you should be able to receive something.


I always thought nigger rigged was like the greatest phrase.
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Old 2008-09-05, 20:21
3xplosive obs3sed 3xplosive obs3sed is offline
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I always thought nigger rigged was like the greatest phrase.

It is. Deff lol
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Old 2008-09-22, 02:27
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i have nigger rigged coathanger + foil. classy
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Old 2008-10-09, 08:05
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budddddddddddddddddddddddddddddaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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Old 2008-10-27, 01:04
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Did you remember to wear your foil hat?
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Old 2008-10-27, 01:05
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budddddddddddddddddddddddddddddaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

encino man!
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Old 2008-10-29, 17:31
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Damn I love these new digital channels here. a fucking 15cm piece of normal multi strand electrical wire has superb reception with my box 92% signal quality and 60% power.

I have also used a larhe wariety of coathanger/copper wire nigger rigged antennas whem no proper one was available.

I'm atm using a omnidirectional antenna of my own design, 96% quality and 70% power, fuck yeah.
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