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Old 07-11-2017, 09:10 AM
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What Jeff is experiencing in the Cleveland coverage area is also true in most of this area. If you want all the channels and are outside of the near-suburbs, its not always possible unless you have an outdoor VHF antenna, and if it is not a large one with a least 8 elements, usually a mast-mounted pre-amp is needed for stable VHF.

I have found rabbit ears useless for all but one local channel WGAL-8, which is high band V. It makes customer's antenna installations difficult because the other local is WHTM-10 the ABC, but to pull just that ONE channel, a 10-element HB yagi or VHF broadband must be added to a modest UHF antenna, which easily pulls in the 5 UHF locals. This makes an easy installation much more complex, large and for some, unsightly.

The stations who decided to remain on VHF as DT have become the "difficult" channels where for UHF, the opposite is true. Most of those UHF fringe channels now on DT can be received with a classic corner reflector or 4-bay bowtie!

Prior to DTV, WJZ-13, WBAL-11, WPVI-6 and WHYY-12 could be received with a small VHF antenna up to 60 miles away, as we are. After DTV, a much larger VHF is needed, with an amp
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