<div dir="ltr"><div>While you're all tired of hearing me go on about how happy I am to have finally ditched Bell and all Bell products... I got rid of the Bell satellite a few years ago now, and for the most part I'm pretty happy without it. I miss watching hockey, though. Khalid gave me all sorts of great instructions on how to get OTA some time back and while his instructions were very good, neither of us took into account that my neighbour directly south of me has a much taller house than I do, and I'm pretty sure his house is lined with lead and wrapped in a Faraday cage, as I bought an antenna, mounted it on the roof (on the old satellite dish mounts), but couldn't get a signal to save my life.<br><br></div>I've considered getting a long pole to mount the antenna on, but those -maniac- balloon tour people have nearly taken out my chimney twice now in the three years I've been in this house, so if I get a long pole I'm going to have to wrap it in barbed wire...<br><br>So my advice to you is that if you're going to go OTA, grab a compass and see how your line-of-sight is looking before you make the plunge.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 December 2015 at 19:32, Colin Mackay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:initial" lang="en-US"> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I cut the cord a while ago. Kodi, combined with a Myth TV backend to record local stations, Kodi streams HGTV Canada, Discovery Canada, Food Network and a few others I can't think of at the moment. I also use Plex media server for a few of those streams, accessing it via the PleXMBC Kodi addon.</div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I get CTV, CTV2, City, Global and TVO. No US stations in New Hamburg.</div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For a time, I was using the USVOD and iPlayer Kodi plug-ins with unblock-us for the US and UK networks. </div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I also have SickRage installed for things I can't always get. *coughtorrentcough*</div> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:initial;text-align:initial;line-height:initial"><br></span></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">No TV payments for 4 years now. </div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div> <div style="font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.</div> <table style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in;font-family:Tahoma,'BB Alpha Sans','Slate Pro';font-size:10pt"> <div><b>From: </b>Khalid Baheyeldin</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, December 9, 2015 7:19 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>KWLUG discussion</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>KWLUG discussion</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kwlug-disc] 8-bay OTA antenna - $50</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(186,188,209);border-top-width:1pt;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></div><br><div><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 7:10 PM, B.S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bs27975@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">bs27975@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>>In the past 6 or so months, they had two outages on Saturdays<br>
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</span>Wee hours, or prime time?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Either early morning (when all are asleep) to noon.<br></div><div>Or 10 am to 2 pm or so.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken<br></div>
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