"Joe Nicholson" wrote to "Mike Ross" (05 Jul 03  14:04:00)
 --- on the topic of "RECEPTION, TV"

 -=> Quoting Mike Ross to Leonard Erickson <=-

 MR> As for the flat land, the "line of sight" distance increases a
 MR> lot if the antenna site is elevated such as when erected on a
 MR> mountain top.

 JN> That was the beginning of the cable TV industry, in the 50's
 JN> called CCTV or community TV, when a group of low-lying residents
 JN> pooled resources and placed an antenna on the top of a mountain
 JN> above their valley.

This is the opposite effect really. In your case the radiation angle is
high and the mountain top antenna intercepts this. In my case the
antenna height is used to lower the radiation angle. Seems like
the conjugates of the same effect.

 Mike
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