Digital locals: Why can cable do it but not Satellite???

[NightRyder]

I thought NAB mean Nazi A**hole B**tards

It does, but I didn't want to confuse the newbies.


NightRyder

 

[charper1]

hell i have seen local cable cos just toss a few high gain directional UHF OTA antennas onto their tower and process the local digital right into their systems. i wish we all had a few thou, FCC & HOA approval to errect a 100' tower in the yard.

 

[Fgsilva]

hell i have seen local cable cos just toss a few high gain directional UHF OTA antennas onto their tower and process the local digital right into their systems. i wish we all had a few thou, FCC & HOA approval to errect a 100' tower in the yard.

In my case the tower would have to be more like 200'!!! Or I could just stop being a *whimp* and climb some of the pine trees to put up an antenna!

 

[Fgsilva]

You guys are making me homesick. Wife and I are former Duluthians, born and raised there but now holed up on the left (west) coast, north of San Francisco. (la la land)

Hey, at least I'm sure you get the HD local channels where you are!!

 

[Grandude]

Hey, at least I'm sure you get the HD local channels where you are!!

I'm 53 miles north of the main SF antenna array on Sutro Tower with some difficult terrain in between, so no, getting OTA is iffy for me. Sometimes good signels on most stations and sometimes almost nothing. The best performing OTA for me is a VHF digital station about 100 miles away. Go figure.

 

[Fgsilva]

I'm 53 miles north of the main SF antenna array on Sutro Tower with some difficult terrain in between, so no, getting OTA is iffy for me. Sometimes good signels on most stations and sometimes almost nothing. The best performing OTA for me is a VHF digital station about 100 miles away. Go figure.

That sounds almost like where I am. Although up in the mountains, to get to my home, we go up, then go down and lots of trees surround my place. Great view for contemplating the nature, but a blockage of my OTA signals!!!
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[Grandude]

That sounds almost like where I am. Although up in the mountains, to get to my home, we go up, then go down and lots of trees surround my place. Great view for contemplating the nature, but a blockage of my OTA signals!!!
F

If I ever move again, God forbid, I will not even consider a location without good OTA reception. I moved here from Fremont, CA which had a perfect line of site to Sutro Tower. HD OTA would have been a snap there, but that was five years ago and who would have known then what we know now.

 

[Fgsilva]

If I ever move again, God forbid, I will not even consider a location without good OTA reception. I moved here from Fremont, CA which had a perfect line of site to Sutro Tower. HD OTA would have been a snap there, but that was five years ago and who would have known then what we know now.

Well, I guess by the time I move again Dish will have added my local on HD so it will be OK and I can have them anywhere i go!

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[Mr Tony]

Hey iceberg it's nice to see someone else from minnesota on here, I'm in Waconia where are you at the Iron Range?

about 20 miles from ya

Shakopee....use to live in Duluth so I "keep in touch" (the KBJR 6 slogan) with Duluth