Answers > What Is the Best Hdtv Antenna for Someone in a Mobile Home Park?

Hillbilly Bob June 2, 2010 at 9:03 pm

I don’t have the answer. I didn’t know they could send HDTV over air. I thought you had to send it via coax cable and/or fiber to an HDTV receiver to an HDTV compatible Monitor/TV. Let me know when you figure this out. Good luck.

Broadcast Engineer June 2, 2010 at 9:07 pm

Try either a smaller outdoor antenna that is amplified internally (round ones used for mobile homes that travel the highways or square box like ones that are for neighborhoods like yours). See links below. Or just use a traditional antenna that is small enough and amplify it with the amplifier shown in the link.

Round antennas – Mobile home style – Other brands like this may be more durable in cold or windy weather:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2348191

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062075&cp=&sr=1&origkw=vhf+uhf+amplifier&kw=vhf+uhf+amplifier&kwCatId=2032057&parentPage=search

Square antenna – similar designs available from Phillips:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2253765

Phillips UHF only antenna:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5000836

Sample VHF UHF amplifier:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2455311&cp=&sr=1&origkw=vhf+uhf+amplifier&kw=vhf+uhf+amplifier&kwCatId=2032057&parentPage=search

Find out which assigned channels are in use in your area at:

http://www.antennaweb.org

PS3 player June 2, 2010 at 9:55 pm

I use a Terk indoor antenna in NYC. I pick up ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC in HD (I pick up a bunch of other channels but not in HD). Its only $37 from Amazon.com. I have to play with the positioning a little bit, but I get my local channels in HD for $37!

dct6412 June 2, 2010 at 9:57 pm

Something else to think about…

There are federal regulations against community association and local government restrictions that prohibit installation of antennas for receiving over the air video programming.

See the FCC’s Fact Sheet on Placement of Antennas:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html

The community association can restrict the size of a satellite receiver to about 1 meter, and local permit regulations may prevent antenna’s from being higher than 12 meters above the roofline, but I don’t think there is a size limit to antennas for TV reception of local broadcasts.

The only exception I could see is, “Under some circumstances where a central or common antenna is available, a community association or landlord may restrict the installation of individual antennas.”

You could probably think about putting an antenna up and telling them they have no legal right to restrict your antenna.