You may need to move the antenna some to find the right place where they will all come in. I had to do that too.
Oh, and get it higher if you can. In one house, I ended up sticking it in the attic and running the cable in the wall...worked perfect.
I have this and it works great. It is a bandwidth hog though. Good thing Cox doesn't gig us for exceeding our data allowance because I routinely go past 350 gig. Wayyyyy past. But Vue has great picture quality and rarely buffers or drops.
AFAIK, Channel 5 is still VHF rather than UHF, so you need an antenna that will handle both, or two separate antennas. Went through that when I went back to an antenna several years ago. Got the right antenna ... problem solved.
And, keep in mind, I'm in Enid so I'm pulling it in from much further away!
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Well, I can get Channel 5 with the same antenna on the TV in the kitchen, but not on the TV in the bedroom. I can't get squat on the main TV in the living room! Gonna fiddle with it...move it around or something. (Or pay for a TV geek to come fix everything).
Channel 5 is hard to get like "DRC458" said, it's the only one on VHF. I have a RCA751R antenna in my attic running to the livingroom TV and it gets everything. In the bedrooms, one TV has an old bowtie and gets everything but ch5, and the other room has a paperclip and get most channels except 5. You might try a cheap antenna like mine in the attic and use the old cable TV cable to split it to all the rooms.
We are a long way from local TV towers. Dual VHF/UHF antennas mounted in different directions is the only antenna system that works to pick up all TV channels. Not only do they need to point different directions, but they also need to be spaced a specific distance apart on the pole for best reception.
It only uses 3.8Mbps, which is around the same as Netflix HD.
I kept getting Emails from them for going over all the time at that tier when I started streaming more stuff. I just dropped Cox's land line and movie channels but I kept Contour basic and a DVR for the wifes room and have their mini boxes on all of the other TVs thru out the house. The internet section I bumped up to the 700g tier for just a few more bucks and now have way more than I need, I stream almost everything in my media room and just use cable for news,etc.
I'm back on this wagon. I'm thinking of picking up some mahu leaf antennas for the tvs. For the streaming in the living room is there any perk from getting an Amazon Fire box opposed to running my xbox one? I was looking at paying the sling subscription is there a better alternative? I'll have Netflix, Amazon prime video and some form of HBO but I'm not sure which route to go.
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