From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , mike
 wrote:
>
>Sometimes I long for the easy days of climbing up onto the roof and
>installing an antenna to obtain TV.

I'm in a signal shadow, with a massive curved hillside off to one side
acting as a parabolic reflector with the house as a focus. Massive
ghosting. I had to go to a huge amount of trouble with highly directional
phased arrays, one set for each channel group, to get a watchable picture.
Every few years I'd have to pull it all down and rebuild it due to salt
spray corrosion. I was very happy when the cable company wired the street.

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