Dish 811 HD Receiver

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I have the 811 and have hooked it up to the Radio Shack VU-75 XR
($36.99) mounted in my attic. I live between Cincinnati (38 miles) and
Dayton (15 miles) Ohio. I pointed the antenna towards the Cincy towers
and receive all of the stations with a 75% signal or better. I even get
two Dayton stations also. I have been pretty happy with this receiver
so far. In a recent heavy rain storm, I was able to get the local OTA
stations while the satellite stations were offline. I had heard that
the OTA part of the receiver would not work if it couldn't see the
satellite but it appeared to be working for me (I guess it was possible
that one of the sat channels was still working, I didn't check them all).

beernuts wrote:
> Any experiences +/- with hooking up an OTA antenna to this bad boy?

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beernuts wrote:
> Any experiences +/- with hooking up an OTA antenna to this bad boy?

That's awesome news, and not to bad $$$ wise. Did either of you use
antenna.org to choose your antenna or did you just go for a decent UHF?

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beernuts <beerwithnutsNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<H97Ac.32050$mz.24373@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>...
> beernuts wrote:
> > Any experiences +/- with hooking up an OTA antenna to this bad boy?
>
> That's awesome news, and not to bad $$$ wise. Did either of you use
> antenna.org to choose your antenna or did you just go for a decent UHF?

I used www.antennaweb.org to figure out if I could get a signal in my
area and what type of antenna I needed. I've heard others on this
newsgroup rave about the Zenith antenna, so I decided to try it.