{"id":10984,"date":"2016-01-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2016-01-17T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T22:19:38","slug":"2016-01-18-tv-freeway-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=10984","title":{"rendered":"2016-01-18 TV Freeway Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this advertised on TV yesterday.&nbsp; I thought that with no power and connecting to the coax jack, this had to be an antenna.&nbsp; But it didn&#8217;t tell you that in the TV ad.&nbsp; So I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvfreeway.com\/\">their website<\/a> and found that in the fine print, it says that it&#8217;s a VHF UHF antenna.<\/p>\n<p>The flat &#8216;stick&#8217; that makes up most of it probably has a piece of wire a few feet long imbedded inside of plastic.&nbsp; If the antenna is not outside and low to the ground, the reception will probably be poor.&nbsp; TV signals can be attenuated by the building walls.&nbsp; So you buy the &#8216;TV Freeway&#8217; and find that it does not work well, so you send it back to get a refund.&nbsp; You lose your shipping fee, which is $8.00.&nbsp; The company then repackages your antenna and sells it to some other sucker.&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp; They may have a limited amount of them that they may sell over and over again.&nbsp; By the way, I didn&#8217;t see anything where they tell you that you have to setup your TV for off the air broadcasts, and run the auto channel finder.&nbsp; For $23, instead it might be better to use a piece of wire in the TV jack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this advertised on TV yesterday.&nbsp; I thought that with no power and connecting to the coax jack, this had to be an antenna.&nbsp; But it didn&#8217;t tell you that in the TV ad.&nbsp; So I went to their website and found that in the fine print, it says that it&#8217;s a VHF UHF<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=10984\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10986,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}