A long time ago, I lost my way. And by “way” I mean “the F-connector die set for my racheting crimper.” That thing is impossible to find. I’m trying to locate it because I just got a large new aerial TV antenna so that I can get more hi-def channels (for a mere $25 – don’t waste your money on the $100 ones at BB or CC). I plan to mount the monstrousity of aluminum in my attic and connect it via RG-6 running through the same path in the walls that my cat-5 cables take. This will be a bit more challenging the second time around since the holes in the walls cut for that purpose are now all sealed up. Anyway, last night, unable to make a 100′ cable without the crimper, I assembled the antenna in my living room and connected it via some short coax I had around, and the results are fantastic. Before, I could barely receive FOX and get nothing else; now I get all the networks, mHz, and PBS in glorious digital picture and 5.1 sound. Hooray for the electromagnetic spectrum! WB still doesn’t come in, as if I watch that anyway. Maybe this weekend I’ll get it all setup in mythtv so that when I record, say, the mind-enhancing television show 24, mythtv uses the HD card instead of cable.
(Kill your TV.)