CUT
THE CABLE
I grew up as a little
boy in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania during the 1950s. As it is now 2015
I have to let my memory go back a long way. I remember looking at TV when
everything was in black and white. We had an antenna on the roof of our house
with a rotor so we could turn the antenna toward New York City or
Philadelphia. We only got five channels,
three from New York and two from Philadelphia.
It was many years later
when I was married and we rented a home that we first got cable TV. I’m not
sure how many channels then, but I do remember we only paid about $9.00 a
month. That was in the mid-1980s.
Now my mind is back to
2015 and it was not long ago that I read an article that a company called MOHU,
a spinoff of Greenwave Scientific, built indoor TV antennas. It is a company
located in Raleigh, NC where we presently live. The article said, why pay a
high cable or satellite TV bill when you can get high definition broadcast
channels and have no monthly bill. I was interested but not a total believer,
because I remember the quality of the signal way back in the 1950s.
Would this work I
thought to myself? I did as much research as I could on MOHU indoor antennas.
They had two antennas that interested me. Both were MOHU leaf antennas, one
with a 30 mile range and the other with a 50 mile range. We live about 10 miles
from downtown Raleigh so I decided to get the MOHU leaf 30 antenna and hook it
up to the TV in our bedroom. It is slightly larger than a sheet of standard
computer paper. The antenna is white on one side and black on the other. It
took all of five minutes to disconnect the cable and put up the antenna on the
wall. As I flipped through the channels I was amazed. All channels were crystal
clear.
In doing my research it
said in my area I should be able to receive 19 channels and I was pleasantly
surprised to find that I actually got 25 channels. I decided to get another
antenna for the TV in the living room and a wireless router so I could stream
NetFlix to that TV. I now had access to my local TV channels, ABC, NBC, CBS,
FOX, and others. Also I was now able to see thousands of TV shows and movies
with NetFlix costing me $8.99 a month.
This antenna won’t work
if you live a long distance from a city, but for me it is ideal and a huge
money saver. We were paying over $75 dollars a month for cable.
Sure we got over 350 channels, but why did we need that many. We only look at
about 15 of them regularly. It was time to cut the cable out of my life and
save money in the process. We already knew that in 2015 our cable bill was
going to be over $80 a month or over $960 a year.
I bought 2 MOHU indoor
TV antennas for $40 each and a wireless router for $70, a total cost of $150.
However no more monthly cable bill. We will pay $8.99 a month for NetFlix for a
total of $107.88 a year. So we are going from over $960 a year to less than
$108 a year. That is a savings of $852 a year. That is a huge savings of well
over $4,000 in the next 5 years.
We only had our TV with the cable company. We have the MagicJack Internet phone for $35 a year and we
have dsl Internet through the phone company. Cable is now out of
our life.
Here is little
information about the MOHU antennas. They were introduced in March of 2011. So
far they have saved customers over $220 million by eliminating cable or
satellite bills. 94 of the top 100 watched shows are available over-the-air in
1080p HD. Free with an MOHU antenna.
There is life after
cable or satellite TV. Why pay for many channels you never look at? The only
two channels I will miss from cable are the Hallmark and the History channels.
I can live without those to save hundreds of dollars a year.
If you live close to a
city with many broadcast channels check out this antenna. It was developed from
military technology. Go to www.gomohu.com
No more cable bill, I
am on cloud nine!
Copyright Larry W. Fish 2015
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