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No digital-TV DX here yet (the S.F. Bay Area is surrounded by hills), but I might install a TV antenna on the top of my 55-foot tower and see what I get. I have a 14/21/28 MHz beam antenna on it now and I did get a pretty good picture on Sacramento channel 3 a while back.
The biggest threat to TV DXing in the future is only indirectly related to the switch to digital TV, since they could have done this at any time already... It is the plan to have (yet more) wireless data services in what they are calling "white space". That "space" is the unused TV channels in any market area. So, instead of picking up TV signals from out of the Bay Area, all the channels could be filled with local junk.
As I noted, they could have approved such a service at any time with or without the switch to digital OTA TV.
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Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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