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The full-spectrum outdoor antennas are still the best.
Our local (Middle-Pa not Philly) channel swaps have resulted in 3 less UHF channels disappearing from now-shutdown transmitters. What really bites is those 3 tower locations were covering areas that are poorly covered by the one VHF and two UHF transmitters at Harrisburg, the exception being WGAL-8 at York, which is 32kW @ 1306 feet height above average terrain, covering a considerable area in comparison.
The operational savings of shutting off a 500 kW to 1 MW UHF channel and using a 30 kW VHF cannot be ignored, so the reduced coverage is the compromise.
There are now two more subchannels each on two VHF-hi and two UHF channels. Harrisburg's WHTM-10 is half the power of WGAL-8 and also half the height, making a fringe VHF antenna necessary at only 35 miles.
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Last edited by DavGoodlin; 02-27-2018 at 11:53 AM.
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