Digital TV Antennas
by Nicolás Lichtmaier
Discover the digital broadcast TV towers closer to you and aim your antenna.
App Name | Digital TV Antennas |
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Developer | Nicolás Lichtmaier |
Category | Tools |
Download Size | 6 MB |
Latest Version | 4.8.1 |
Average Rating | 4.57 |
Rating Count | 35,602 |
Google Play | Download |
AppBrain | Download Digital TV Antennas Android app |
Aiming your TV antenna is easy and free!
This application helps you discover digital TV towers (DTV) near your location and it helps you find the bearing from your location so that you can point you antenna to catch those stations. It works based on a list of antennas broadcasting digital TV over-the-air (OTA) in the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay.
For users in the US, it can also display the FCC calculated broadcast area over the map!
This app is especially useful for campers and travelers using camper vans, RVs, or motorhomes, ensuring you get the best TV reception wherever you are.
Be aware that compasses in phones are not very good and they are often wrong or get stuck. That cannot be corrected from a software application such as this one. Sometimes it's useful to “calibrate” the devices's compass by performing movements with the phone describing an "8".
For now this helper is just for United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Argentina Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay.
Sources:
USA stations were retrieved from FCC's CDBS database. Brazilian stations were retrieved from Anatel. Argentina ones were retrieved from TDA home page. UK Freeview transmitter locations were retrieved from http://www.ukfree.tv. Canadian stations were retrieved from Industry Canada. Australian station info was downloaded from http://data.gov.au/dataset/licensed-broadcasting-transmitter-data. Transmitters for Ireland (Saorview) come from https://www.saorview.ie/
Please, do not use app ratings to report issues. Try here: https://github.com/niqueco/antenas/issues
Source code is at: https://github.com/niqueco/antenas
Recent changes:
• Switched to Google's orientation provider (the one they use in Maps)
• Updates to many libraries.
• Internal changes and bugfixes.
This application helps you discover digital TV towers (DTV) near your location and it helps you find the bearing from your location so that you can point you antenna to catch those stations. It works based on a list of antennas broadcasting digital TV over-the-air (OTA) in the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay.
For users in the US, it can also display the FCC calculated broadcast area over the map!
This app is especially useful for campers and travelers using camper vans, RVs, or motorhomes, ensuring you get the best TV reception wherever you are.
Be aware that compasses in phones are not very good and they are often wrong or get stuck. That cannot be corrected from a software application such as this one. Sometimes it's useful to “calibrate” the devices's compass by performing movements with the phone describing an "8".
For now this helper is just for United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Argentina Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay.
Sources:
USA stations were retrieved from FCC's CDBS database. Brazilian stations were retrieved from Anatel. Argentina ones were retrieved from TDA home page. UK Freeview transmitter locations were retrieved from http://www.ukfree.tv. Canadian stations were retrieved from Industry Canada. Australian station info was downloaded from http://data.gov.au/dataset/licensed-broadcasting-transmitter-data. Transmitters for Ireland (Saorview) come from https://www.saorview.ie/
Please, do not use app ratings to report issues. Try here: https://github.com/niqueco/antenas/issues
Source code is at: https://github.com/niqueco/antenas
Recent changes:
• Switched to Google's orientation provider (the one they use in Maps)
• Updates to many libraries.
• Internal changes and bugfixes.