Hi Greg.

17-Mar-04 08:49:00, Greg Mayman wrote to Mike Ross

 GM> One letter I recall said that the correspondent had been persuaded
 GM> to try digital. He spent a very long time experimenting to find
 GM> the "sweet spot" for the antenna where the signal was good enough
 GM> to give consistent reception --- and this was in an area where the
 GM> analog reception was consistently quite acceptable for almost any
 GM> siting of the antenna --- but he was still plagued by intermittent
 GM> loss of sound or freezes of the picture, not long, but long enough
 GM> and often but enough to destroy his enjoyment of the programs.

I get those on analog.  (typiclly when there's a electric weather near the
repeater)

 GM> It is said that the siting of the antenna usually requires a
 GM> special meter that measures the dropout rate.

yeah, if you get multipath reception on digital what looks like a strong signal
on a regular meter can be full of hash.

 GM> And whan you find the "sweet spot" for one channel, what guarantee
 GM> is there that reception of other channels will be acceptable?

 GM> I'm tempted to think the aim is to drive people away from "free to
 GM> air" and onto cable and satellite. OTOH it seems a damnedly
 GM> expensive way to do it....

hmm, yeah. they'll rent you a pay system for about 3 times the HP on a set-top
box.  (totoally made-up figures there)

ABC (Australia) has less addverts than some pay channels anyway.

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