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Old 21-Sep-2014, 2:37 PM   #9
Tower Guy
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Originally Posted by StephanieS View Post
adding low-VHF capability to add the chance at WGVK would be wiser than being at the mercy of foliage and foliage induced unreliability of WGVU combined with pointing off to the side of it.
The low band interference may be worse than the trees on UHF. I have often found poor reception of low band below 15 db NM. The FCC planning factors added 4 db for low band noise. It's often more than that. TVfool's calculation ignores the extra noise.
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