TV

Hello,

If you asked I would say that we do not watch much TV. Therefore it seems an inefficient use of funds to buy cable. Unfortunately here our rabbit ears are having a hard time getting the signal. Helping measures have been to move the TV upstairs, jiggle the antenna when necessary, avoid foul language if upset, or just turn off the TV in disgust. Most of the time it works, but sometimes requires some coaxing.

Today while out and about I bought an additional antenna that was according to the packaging, better than the old fashioned antenna, could be used in any position, and would increase our enjoyment.

Leroy eagerly set it up after lunch. It was not better, but decidedly worse. Now you should know that our TV is at least 15 years old, but it still “runs good”. There were suggestions of solutions if this new antenna did not work well, some of those involved taking off an amplifier. Each time when making a change it required rescanning for channels. That scan takes a few minutes. Each time we would wait with great expectations for greater clarity only to be disappointed.

Perhaps it would be better in Leroy’s stamp room since that was in the north and closer to the source of the signal. It took two of us to move this old TV and all its accompanying wires because of the converter box, VCR, DVD player, as well as the box that allows us to use equipment that does not have the same compatible chord endings.

Then we proceeded to run through the little repertroire that we had acquired in the first room. All to see a distorted picture that would become frozen in time for longer than anyone wanted to look at it.

I finally went back to the kitchen and Leroy packed up the antenna so we could return it. Our rabbit ears work so much better that we realize we have been ungrateful to them. Everyday now that we use the TV and it works we will say, “Thank you rabbit ears.”

I even suggested that we get cable, but Leroy said, “Why? We hardly watch TV.”

Paula