Digital TV Antennas

Nicolás Lichtmaier

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About this app

Aiming your TV antenna is easy and free!

This application helps you discover digital TV towers (DTV) near your location and it helps you find the bearing from your location so that you can point you antenna to catch those stations. It works based on a list of antennas broadcasting digital TV over-the-air (OTA) in the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay.

For users in the US, it can also display the FCC calculated broadcast area over the map!

This app is especially useful for campers and travelers using camper vans, RVs, or motorhomes, ensuring you get the best TV reception wherever you are.

Be aware that compasses in phones are not very good and they are often wrong or get stuck. That cannot be corrected from a software application such as this one. Sometimes it's useful to “calibrate” the devices's compass by performing movements with the phone describing an "8".

For now this helper is just for United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Argentina Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay.

Sources:

USA stations were retrieved from FCC's CDBS database. Brazilian stations were retrieved from Anatel. Argentina ones were retrieved from TDA home page. UK Freeview transmitter locations were retrieved from http://www.ukfree.tv. Canadian stations were retrieved from Industry Canada. Australian station info was downloaded from http://data.gov.au/dataset/licensed-broadcasting-transmitter-data. Transmitters for Ireland (Saorview) come from https://www.saorview.ie/

Please, do not use app ratings to report issues. Try here: https://github.com/niqueco/antenas/issues
Source code is at: https://github.com/niqueco/antenas

Ratings and reviews

Only a casual user, but it's a great app! I have been "tech'ed" to death over the last 45 years (albeit fun), and my preference was always software, then applications, then apps, that got me job done fast, right, and with no hassles. This product does just that. It works as it was intended, delivers exactly what it claims (without fail), and doesn't have the unnecessary "fluff" (that a lot of apps seem to have) that gets in the way of simple delivery of the desired result. 👍

Excellent, easy to understand. I thought I was just going to experiment with moving the antenna a few degrees at a time, then rescan for channels with the TV. I'm pretty well spoiled to Netflix and Amazon streaming, but there are times I'd like to see regular broadcast TV. I am located in a very rural area with lots of tall trees, but the house had a tall antenna tower with electric rotor system when we purchased. What was going to take all day or longer will now be possible in an hour! Having the degrees and the channel numbers to plug in is awesome!

Good, Easy, Quick. I like the App. The information is good. I found the Digital signal towers in my region quick. The setup was easy once I figured out the best way to face my antenna. A couple of features that may help is content on different types of indoor and exterior antenna systems that either have built in features for best practice and troubleshooting if you dont have any original information from the antenna maker. Overall good app.

What's new

• Adjustments for Android 14 non-linear font scaling.
• Argentina: Added filtering according to whether an antena is private or state run.
• Some corrections to English and Portuguese texts.
• Internal changes and bugfixes.