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Originally Posted by tom.j.fla
Tom.C I stand corrected. I'm going by what happened here in Fla land. There maybe 1 or 2,3 still on low band. Local PBS outlet on ch. 3 with the max 30kw allowed was only getting out about 15 miles with a good signal. went to RF ch.13 and is covering there area. But UHF is the best choice for the digital format tv. Same thing happened with cell phones when they went all digital, went to 1.9ghz and higher. All the best, Tom.J
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I don't see how you come up with UHF is the best choice for digital tv...?
or that 30KW on ch 3 only goes 15 miles....?
I'm in NY, 60 miles from NYC, Our CBS Analog was on 2. We got them here
on an 30 year old RS $21. Color Special in the closet like they were direct
wired. Don't know what they transmitted at back then. The higher the Fo.
the worse reception got. Noise was bad too.
Now digital, we have ABC on 7, they use 7KW and make it 60 miles. Others
on ch 38, 48, etc. are up in the 200+KW and we don't get them here.
VHF low goes farther with less power. Is less susceptible to noise, especially
with this distance. Now I have to use a roof antenna on 20' extension, and
a pre amp, + dist. amp. I have a spectrum analyzer too, with noise traps.
I think VHF is much better for TV, Hoping repack brings back lower frequencies....
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