All you have to do is say "engage"

well we have a decent antenna mounted about 20 feet up in the air connected to low-loss coax...i havent thought of a preamp...i will have to go take a look at that one...we have aimed the antenna right using a air plane compass and the coordinates we got from the fcc database (i just helped so i really dont know exactly where we got the coordinates) at about 60 miles we get most of the channels except for ABC 13 and PBS 8...which is odd..becuase they are all at the same location...

all ready did all of that man..and i agree its probably a grain dryer or something of that nature...this is even with the outdoor antenna...properly pointed (a member of my family is a land surveyor so he helped us point it in the right direction)....i quote family guy "the freaking FCC" its one of those govt things where it just has to say it on paper...not acutally work...wait..thats more like a school district. i will believe that map when i see it...

We are "prepared" for this switch over...at first we bought the stupid converter boxes...didnt work...we lost most of our channels. So the we got an new HDTVS (for other reasons *coughxbox360cough*) and still couldn't get our fav channels. We did some research and being 60 miles away for the transmission towers kinda kills the beauty of DTV. Some where in between us and the tower...is ONE TREE...kills most of the signals. The other thing is that the stations aren't transmitting at the power needed to make DTV available to everyone. Fox 26 here in the Houston has the highest broadcasting power something like 26000 MHZ (?) while the rest are at like 200. Unless we switch to satellite, we wont be watching LOST very much more...

do i detect a hint of Monty Python?...that will be the only thing constant if this were to happen...humor...i hope John Cleese survives all of this so he can sit at a desk in the middle of a burning city to say "And not for something completely different!"

everbody on earth (with a decent connection) could download Firefox,use OpenDNS, and just type in the awesome bar..works for me!