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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yes they did. But all newer TV’s are digital now. The problem is if there is anything in the way of “Line of sight” like a mountain or if you are more than 30 miles away you are not going to get it. No matter what kind of antenna you have.


31 posted on 08/03/2017 5:35:54 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

I am in the mountains surrounded by tall trees and receive all my stations in the 60 to 90 mile range.

I am however running an extreme fringe uhf only antenna rig with a low noise on antenna pre amp.

I tested reception with an old garage sale fish bone a tenna, but when I found over a dozen watchable channels I broke down and spent a few days researching antennas.

Settled on a resonant yagi about 5 foot long because of its flat spectrum response across all channels. At fringe every dB counts.

Note that high dolloar does not translate to better reception. The best antenna was one third the price.i highly recommend Solid Signal antennas, they are well made and smoke the competition at dB per dollar.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00CX700EY/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Yes, only 39 bucks, ones almost as good go for over a hundred bucks.


111 posted on 08/03/2017 10:02:29 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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