Why is ATSC on VHF so damn finicky?

[centralradio]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

That's too bad you have such bad results. It's 100% all good here. No airplane fading, no static noise slowly crawling up the picture from noisy power lines and other sources, no ghosting from multipath. Don't miss any of that. With a good antenna and tuner DTV works great. I even pull in a station from Oklahoma with the same picture quality as the locals and the OK station is about 100 miles away, on RF 12, KXII 12. Over 110 channels total. Much more efficient.

Thanks Ed.Wow you are lucky.It is a bad experience and thats why I'm probably so negative over DTV. I see the benefits of it but its useless if I cant get even one channel.I probably have put up a 50 foot mast antenna to get anything here.If it was the other way around .I would cut the cable and go OTA.For $36 bucks on cable and thats all its worth to me.