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

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.

I have given up on cable companies. They have stolen repeatedly and I said " no more, enough is enough." I now have free tv with quite the reduction in channels received. I bought an antennae(close the size of a piece of paper.)to use till I can figure out how to receive cable without being nickel and dimed to death.(not prime stations but just normal cable stations)direction for antennae is critical. Having this guide to direction saves time. Thank You for good app. it definitely helps.

I put two 60 mile antennas inside my attic, because there are two clusters of broadcasts in different directions. Due to the accuracy of this app, I set them up, left all my tools and supplies in the attic, so I could go check the TV's and come back and move or adjust everything. Once I checked, I was annoyed that I didn't bring everything down when I came the first time! 10 miles south of Richmond, VA, I now have 35 channels- on the first attempt!

What's new

• Switched to Google's orientation provider (the one they use in Maps)
• Updates to many libraries.
• Internal changes and bugfixes.