Television Antennas.. Soon to be a part of our past
February 20th, 2008 categories: Prescott Homeowners
Antique Road Show, year 2090
Louise has been patiently standing in line with a contraption her Grandmother and Mother used to hang wet clothes on in the winter. It has been in the basement of her Great-grandfather’s home for as long as anyone can remember, anchored to the floor with guy wires, holding countless hangers of wet clothes. It has a 5’metal pole with other long thin round pieces of metal jutting out from it. Sort of like the branches of a tree. So here she stands, her question and contraption in hand. It’s finally her turn and the conversation goes something like this; “Well, what have we here?” “my family has used this to hang wet clothes on for as long as anyone can remember but my husband insists that it was originally used for something else but he doesn’t know what” “well, what you have here is a television antenna. This would be installed on the roof of a house and then connected to the television with a couple of wires” “what’s an antenna?” Louise asks. “an antenna is something that would catch a signal, radio, television, etc., as it went through the air and then transmit the signal to your “receiver” in this case, a television. “They stopped using these for televisions sometime back in 2009.
If you are one of those TV watchers that are still using the antique antenna, beware: A long awaited change is coming to a TV near you. As of February 17th, 2009, antenna fed televisions without digital tuners will go blank unless they have separate converters. For more information, please read the article on AZ Central.com regarding “digital only” TV reception.
