yet again another great ep sir. I dont think you are an idiot 😉 .

Sounds awesome, too bad I live in a condominium and I won’t be able to mount the ota antenna. Nice hack tho!

You can always use a bedroom and put it on a stand 🙂  Lol
That’s what I did.

True – If I were still single and the P.A.R. did not kick in. 😀

Great episode, and glad to see you posting again.  I wish I had a attic.  I live in a apartment and I’m a ham radio nut, but it’s hard to find space for a antenna.  Still trying to figure that one out. : )  Hope you’re enjoying your new home. 

I may be building a new house, any chance we could get an episode on structured wiring, running CAT6 & even RG6 to each room and having a server closet of some sort in a central location to house any routers/switches?  Maybe even setting up a front door security camera and feeding the video to your TV thru media center? 

I would love to do an ep on structured wiring, but that’s a limitation of my own home right now. We are working on the wired home network ep right now. As for the security camera idea – we hadn’t thought of that. Hm…

Thanks the website recommendation is great! 
I have a outdoor antenna in one of my bedrooms because I’m in an apartment 🙂  Lol
Put the cable through the heat/air run. Ghetto but it works and the antenna has a remote for direction change from the couch.

Just curious, if I was to hook the coax from the antenna into a slingbox (which I don’t have right now) then connect the slingbox to my network. Could I potentially have HDTV over Ethernet?

That would require the Slingbox to have a TV tuner built-in which I don’t believe it does. You could get a TV tuner box, then attach that to the Slingbox to access TV. Whether you’ll have HD video is a whole other argument.

I think the more expensive Slingbox – http://support.slingbox.com/go/pro-hd-video does have a tuner built in. I could be reading the spec’s wrong. I’m assuming this is considered a digital antenna.

PS: I was looking on your amazon store for the purple rated antenna which was used in the video. 2 questions will it be available in your store, and where you affected by the amazon affiliate program (CA tax issue) with amazon?

I’ve got to update the store selection. That is totally my fault – and yup, now that I’m in California, so long affiliate program. 

Mike, I think you’re right! I must have missed this particular Slingbox. Very cool – thanks for the link. 

On the Slingbox issue-  it almost works….  my slingbox is located near the city but NO tuner so I bought a digital tuner and fed it in… great reception BUT, Slingbox doesn’t support my remote (RCA Brand) so I can not change channels   🙁  –  So now after getting a Slingbox and a digital tuner I am going back to looking at a long range attenna…your video was very encouraging that this will work. One question… I am south east of you, the guides call for a medium range for me but I need to set my direction for 217 for most channels and 210 for NBC, If I get a longer range, do you think it would make up for the 7 degrees of separation?