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Note to Antennas: Bite Me
Antenna Rules:1. Extend antenna for weak station, shorten for strong ones.2. Point antenna toward station for maximum signal. 3. In the real world, forget rules 1 and 2. How did this all get started? Well, on Saturday, August 5th, a severe thunderstorm whipped through Janesville, Wisconsin (it may be helpful to get a map for this one), and in the course of five minutes it shut off power to a third of the city, ripped trees to shreds, and felled one in our backyard. Although the power and phone stayed on here, the cable line was snapped. No problem, right? Well, maybe. You see, I do own an indoor antenna, which I used before we piped cable into the basement. I brought it upstairs, and hooked it up. To my surprise, I even got a few Milwaukee stations, including channel 18 ("Milwaukee's home of the WB"), and 55, WPXE, home of the Mario cartoons last year (dang!), a station not carried by my cable company. Then I went to dinner. After coming back, I noticed the Milwaukee stations didn't cone in anymore. Shortly thereafter, one of the extensions broke off. And that was where I ran into real problems. I tried to create my own makeshift antenna, but I could never reliably get WVTV. Part of the problem was the strong channel below it and above it. No matter how I oriented my antenna, I could never get it to work well enough to reliably bring in the signal. The things I do for that yellow rat. To make a long story short, I basically was up till midnight trying to get channel 18, with only minimal success, which I eventually wound up destroying. It wasn't until the Pokérap of the afternoon episode that I got thing working again, just a few hours before the cable was fixed. And the moral of this story is: Antennas are the work of the devil, especially indoor ones.
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