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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
Your mother must have an analog TV with a DTV box and an antenna. Is her reception reasonably good, or does she have problems receiving some channels? ... Multipath causes echoes in FM radio reception but can absolutely kill DTV, because the phenomenon can and does cause live and dead spots; given DTV's all-or-nothing nature, this means viewers may have the dickens of a time finding a spot for their antennas that gives a picture at all.
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She has a rooftop antenna for channels 7, 11 and 13 (these reclaimed their old analog allotment for digital) (this antenna feeds a house wide cable system) and a rooftop UHF antenna for the main set in the living room (via a converter box, the Zenith one) (we are 14 miles north of the Empire State Building, where most NYC signals are transmitted from). We get better reception of a Long Island PBS station (Channel 21) with digital than we used to get with analog with that set.
NYC already uses channels 14 to 17's frequencies for police and fire radio