Sometimes you have to go big. I've been a cord-cutter for more than a year, and until now, I have used an indoor antenna to watch my local over-the-air channels. Because I review gadgets, I've tried ...

I bought a new house, and just moved in. Recently, I discovered that one of the previous owners had installed a GIANT antenna in my attic.<BR><BR>Now, I've been needing an antenna to feed my need for ...

Look like a decent VHF antenna, costing about $50. Antennas are just hunks of conductive metal that resonant with the EM spectrum, they don't really deteriorate unless you bend them out of shape. Or ...

My satellite TV was costing me over $200 a month. To save money I switched to an antenna for local channels, and I still get ...

This is the second in a series of articles about FM transmission systems. The first appeared Oct. 9. How many bays do I need in my antenna and how much transmitter power do I need? These questions ...

Engineering is largely about tradeoffs and constraints. Sometimes, the issues are clouded and the choices are fuzzy, but occasionally, the choice has a fairly clear split. I had one of the latter ...

Oh boy, writing about cord-cutting last week really brought out the reader responses. I was already planning to write about watching local channels, and one person sent in just the right question: ...

Your television almost certainly has a built-in tuner to receive over-the-air signals from an antenna. Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends Being able to stream any given Sunday’s NFL games is very much a ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when you need them. Back in the heyday of shortwave broadcasting, any of us would have given a week’s pay for even a low-end ...