Rabbit Ears

As my loyal readers already know, we had D*sh Network installed on November 26.

It has been great thus far. I like their HD package, and the picture is better than we ever had with M*diacom. The only problem we've had is when there was an inch of ice on the dish last weekend. Strangely enough, we lost reception for a while...until I poured a couple pitchers of hot water on the dish. That cleared it right up.

Anyway, the one thing that I really missed from our days with M*diacom were the local channels in HD. I was doing some research for a nice outdoor antenna we could install to hopefully pick up the locals in HD.

During M*diacom's dispute with Sinclair last winter, I got a free pair of cheap rabbit ears. We're talking $9.99 at Wal-Mart rabbit ears. I figured I'd give them a shot before I bought another antenna...and boy am I glad I did!

I plugged that bad boy into the back of our receiver, and it picked up 15 local channels, including several in crystal clear high definition! I am happy now...

Moral of the story - try cheap rabbit ears before spending a lot of money on some fancy antenna. It worked well for us...