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Around here, there are no analog stations to DX, that I'm aware of. We had one LP station on channel 47, TBN; but, they ceased OTA transmissions last February due to excessive cost to keep the analog signal going and not enough OTA analog viewers. They are still on cable and satellite; but, not OTA. DX'ing digital is almost unheard of around here. There was a channel 34, whos transmitter was about 70-80 miles away, that I could receive at most anytime of the day with a bowtie antenna. The picture was usually very snowy; but, it was watchable. I've also been able to receive, in the morning and at night, WDAM-7 and WHLT-22 (Hattiesburg, MS) and WLOX-13 (Gulfport, MS) while analog was still going. With digital, I've only been able to receive 34 twice and I've never gotten anything on the other channels.
I like metal cabinet sets myself, especially the larger ones. I have a 25V Zenith CCII, a 23V RCA CTC38 in somewhat sad shape, a '73 Teledyne 14" tube type color portable, and an early '70's 15" Packard-Bell B&W. Zenith still had metal cabinet sets at least until the early '80's and there were some Sanyo/Sears 19" metal cabinet sets until the early '80's.
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