Tailgating: OTA TV in Ames and generators

[yler4cy]

I have a Champion generator that I bought from Sam's Club. I have had it for the past 2 years and absolutely love it. It is quiet and half the price of the Honda.

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Also, if you wanted you could buy a 2nd and hook it together with a parallel cable and have roughly 4,000 watts. I even ran it over with my bus and it still works great. Yes I was a little intoxicated.

Also, I have a Winegard Minimax autotuning satellite and love it as well. Look on craigslist and find one they are usually cheap on there.

[dmclone]

FWIW, using one of the yamaha 2000s, its very quiet, and on a full tank it has run for us from 7am to 11pm, despite running 2 tvs, satellite receivers, and automatic dish, crock pots, etc. We carry around extra gas 'just in case', but its rarely needed.

This is almost exactly our setup. We run out of gas about 10 hours into the tailgate.

[Omaha Cy]

Where does FX come from OTA? I thought that was a cable channel.

A friend in Perry has an antennae on his roof and pulls it in. A co-worker here that lives just north of Omaha on a farm also manages to pull it in with an antennae as well.

[keepngoal]

A friend in Perry has an antennae on his roof and pulls it in. A co-worker here that lives just north of Omaha on a farm also manages to pull it in with an antennae as well.

So Omaha broadcasts FX?

[Triggermv]

A friend in Perry has an antennae on his roof and pulls it in. A co-worker here that lives just north of Omaha on a farm also manages to pull it in with an antennae as well.

I'm pretty sure FX is just a cable/satellite channel. Here is the link to antennaWeb.com for Perry and Omaha, which shows what channels you can get OTA in both those locations and it doesn't show FX as available for either.

Perry:
AntennaWeb - Stations

Omaha

AntennaWeb - Stations

Also, here is the link for Ames and what you get there:

AntennaWeb - Stations

If you click on the color code by each station, you can see the type of antenna they recommend using for each station and the map shows the direction the signal is coming from (where to point your antenna). As you can see, for all stations, Ames calls for a medium directional antenna pointed south. From my experience, the more large and directional antenna stations they call for, the harder time you are going to have getting the station. I live in Cedar Rapids and most stations call for a simple multidirectional antenna. I've got a big multidirectional rooftop antenna (should fit the bill), and I still struggle at times. With that said, Ames should only be worse than Cedar Rapids.

Regardless, I talked to an antenna installer guy over here and he said OTA signals are interesting monsters as he has seen instances where someone should get every channel easy and they can't. On the flip side, he has seen places where a person shouldn't get many stations at all and get all of them no problem. So, he said don't take the antennaweb website as scripture, but just use it as a guide.

[jonnyb21]

Has anyone been able to confirm that you can in fact pull FX off antenna out of Omaha? Got a buddy who is going to be in SW Iowa in Saturday and unsure if where he is going is going to have cable or not.