Agent Jay
Grandaddy Alumni
I've thought about doing this as well, cutting the cable cord. My wife and I looked at the Pro's and Con's...aka...what shows do we watch and can we get them from an outside/online source? In a lot of cases the answer was no or probably not. Plus, right now the kids have a lot of shows they wouldn't be able to get. So, we signed a new 2 year contract and that's a little less than a year out from expiring.
I looked a HD antenna's, costs and if they'd work for me. What I found is, there is about a roughly 75 mile circle from your house where it would pick up a signal to the point where it looks full HD. Much more than this and the curvature of the earth starts to interrupt/block the signal. So, those of you that are in a metro area, or within about 50 miles of a few major network, you're good! For me, for example, I'm just on the edge of a few and with in the range of one. That's the downside of living in the middle of nowhere, KS.
I looked a HD antenna's, costs and if they'd work for me. What I found is, there is about a roughly 75 mile circle from your house where it would pick up a signal to the point where it looks full HD. Much more than this and the curvature of the earth starts to interrupt/block the signal. So, those of you that are in a metro area, or within about 50 miles of a few major network, you're good! For me, for example, I'm just on the edge of a few and with in the range of one. That's the downside of living in the middle of nowhere, KS.