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Originally Posted by Chip Chester
Depending on the frequencies you need to receive (which might not be the ones called out by the channel number) you might try plugging your DTV adaptor box into the cable. It should work if those subchannels are being broadcast on low basic-cable channels. The higher you go, the less likely it is that it will work.
You could also try a 'Cleveland special' antenna. They were apparently used back in the day to pull in Cleveland stations while viewing from Lorain, etc.
Chip
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I am not using an adaptor box, and my area's DTV subchannels, at least the ones on 8 and 19, are on high VHF channels, which is why I don't get them here on an antenna.
What is a "Cleveland special" TV antenna?
I never heard of that kind of antenna before now. Doesn't matter anyway, as I don't think any kind of antenna will work here. Most people in this town have cable or satellite. The few outdoor antennas I see in the area today are relics of the 1950s and are falling apart, 60 years later. They are probably not much good for anything anymore.
BTW, where on earth is Lorain, Ohio? I live east of Cleveland, in a town closer to Erie than to anywhere in Cleveland (though my cable gets all the Cleveland TV stations, plus one educational channel from Erie or Pittsburgh) and don't know much of anything about the other side of the area--if in fact that's where that city is. Is it in Northwestern Ohio? Near Indiana or Kentucky?
There is a television station supposedly in the Cleveland area that mentions "Lorain" as part of its coverage area, but I don't know exactly where the station itself actually is.