Category: Cabin

  • Is This Blog Dead?

    Short answer: pretty much, but I’ll still keep it around for the archived material, such as my bicycle trip across the USA, and my Kenmore dryer mounting hardware post which seems to be of use to many. Also a couple of posts on using Open Street Maps and using my Garmin for on-bike navigation seem to be…

  • Wrightwood Cabin OTA TV Reception – Part 2 (VHF)

    In my last installment, I talked about how I set up a UHF antenna at my cabin to pick up the Los Angeles area TV stations rebroadcast from the Victor Valley Translator in the high desert. My cabin is only about 25 miles (as the crow flies) from the Los Angeles area broadcast antennas on the…

  • Wrightwood Cabin OTA TV Reception – Part 1 (UHF)

    When we first got our cabin in Wrightwood almost ten years ago, I briefly looked at the possibility of putting an antenna on the roof and getting free TV. The consensus was that reception was limited to a few homes on the east side of town with a clear view of the high desert, where the…