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

Splendid. In reading a good many of these reviews it seems most people just don't understand that signals can be blocked or interference caused by simple positions of the installed antenna or where you are when trying to read the signal. You've also got to realize that "PBS" won't appear as "PBS" but it's call sign WILL. Even the "Ham operator" didn't clue in.

Absolutely a good assistant when pointing. In my case my local Stations are over the hill but with the point of assistance I can skate the edge and receive digital. I am part way up the hill. 60 feet above grade plus 15 feet of extra elevation so my range is about 60 miles. However. I can receive stations 80 and 90 miles that do not have the hill blocking them. I can probably see 300 plus stations from 4 or 5 markets.

I like this app. It finds tv broadcasting antennae accurately and I like the way the arrow points to show you where the antennae is for each channel. We go "camping" once a month for about a week and this app really comes in handy if we want to watch tv in our camper. Of course, the signal must be strong enough so I wish the app showed signal strength. I paid (currently $3.99) for the app because I want to use it in multiple locations and apparently you only get one location without charge.

What's new

• Updates to many libraries.