The Blade is a versatile cellular antenna for ALL trucks. Extremely customizable, it's perfect for any sized truck – from pickups to 18-wheelers and everything in between.

At just over two feet tall, it’s discreet but very functional for all signal environments.

The Bolton Technical Blade is a high-performing, commercial-grade, 5G-capable cellular truck antenna. 3/8 x 24 threaded base with quick disconnect coax cable.It will allow you to schedule and record shows for playback later, skip commercials and even stream your antenna TV outside the home. If you have poor to no reception, you'll either get a jumpy or pixelated picture or nothing at all, just blackness.įinally, if you get a good picture and decide you like using antenna TV, you might want to invest in an antenna DVR. If you have a model with an amp, try it without first.īecause you're receiving digital signals, instead of analog ones, you won't get snow in the case of suboptimal reception. But be aware that this can overload your tuner and you could end up with a lot fewer channels. If you live in a poor reception area you could try a model with a built-in amplifier. It grades each station according to frequency as well as signal strength but unlike the Antenna Point app it won't tell you which direction the antenna is in. In addition to the Antennas Direct site mentioned above, the FCC maintains a DTV Reception Maps page finds the channels available in your area based on your address. You may experience some issues due to natural or man-made obstacles, depending on where your home is, and searching for a problem channel on If you live in an area with good reception you'll be able to get at least the major network channels and their affiliates, including your local PBS station. The tuner on the TV or DVR will then find all of the available channels, and if it's got a program guide it will then arrange all of the upcoming shows into a grid for you. In the Settings menu of your device, you should find either a Channel or Tuning section, and from there you should be able to activate an Auto setting. Whether you're using the tuner built into your TV or an external box such as the TiVo Edge, you'll nevertheless receive OTA TV as a digital signal: analog signals were switched off in 2009. Local TV shows and stations, seen here in Sling TV's OTA interface via AirTV 2.

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