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Originally Posted by Titan1a
I used to enjoy television before DTV. My forte is DX and with DTV DX is nearly useless. <snip>
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Did you get in on the opportunity that the digital transition (with its near-abandonment of VHF-Lowband) provided for really long-haul analog TV DX by sporadic-E?
Since the transition, I've received television stations from Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and several Mexican states in Michigan by Es.
These places had always been "trying to come in" all along, but local lowband stations, and stateside stations in the "Es ring" about 1,000 miles around me were burying the DX.
With locals gone, the real DX can get through (though note that the Mexican analogs are gone).
Yes, there are lowband digitals in NE, but North Platte and Hastings will be in the side null of an antenna pointed south, and Superior is far enough away that an analog ch4 DX station could get through (certainly the audio if not the picture as well).