Watching the tube

Set the Tv to Air rather than cable and buy an antenna at any tv store. Some locations you will receive over 40 channels- other locations you will not get any. I don't think I have ever rec'd a blank when I was close to an Interstate highway.
Another tip- best reception is from the south side of a truck stop and facing south. This seems to limit the interference from passing trucks.

 

Digital over-the-air TV is great, when you're close enough or have a fairly good line of sight to the broadcast tower. It's either locked in with a great picture, or there's no picture at all, there's no in between like with the old analog broadcasts.

And trucks passing in front of the vehicle messing with the signal are always an issue, especially in the fringe areas, not much you can do except get a decent, practical antenna and position it optimally ..

Camping World Window Antenna with 15 foot coax

(Made in USA BTW)

 

Thats all we used to use was a digital antenna. Yes its going to depend on where you are at the time but you can really get a lot of channels if you are in a good area. Some places in California you'd swear you had cable tv! I'm not a big tv person and would never pay all that money for satellite but that's also another option. You can buy a dish and the service and whenever you stop just set it up and kick back. They do have the mobile satellite antennas but they are costly. They look like a little dome on the roof of your truck. Like the other poster said, you can find some good options at the R.V. stores.

Another great idea is to just get netflix and or Hulu on your computer.

 

To watch TV first you need a TV! Hahahahaa

Sorry, I had to...

Mikeeee

 

If you have Dish Network or DirecTV, you can get an additional dish and box and put them in your truck. Mount the dish on a piece of pipe and put it in the space your load locks go on a dry-van pulling truck. Or attached to the headache rack on a flatbed, etc. You will, unfortunately, have to find your own signal. There is also, for *only* $400 or so a thing called the tailgater that you can hook to your receiver and it will find your signal automatically.

Or just subscribe to Hulu Plus or Netflix and burn up your internet time on your smartphone.

Or just go in the truckstop and watch USA, Spike or TNT...like those are the only channels but it's what truckers watch. I don't know why.

Good luck!

 

I don't have a separate TV, I use my laptop with a TV card.
It saves a bunch of space.
The Volvo CB antenna triples as a radio and TV antenna as well, so I just connect the tuner to the TV antenna connector provided in the truck.