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unless of course the minds that are meeting here in this forum agree that I have need for separate VHF/UHF antennas at my location -- do I ?
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but today with the increasing 'disposable' mentality so prevalent.
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I don't mind the disposable part, what with the high cost of labor for repairs, and the rapid advances in technology, but I do mind the misleading claims made by marketing departments. And I do want to know if that unit is the right one for me before I purchase it.
In particular, mileage figures for antennas are useless except to compare antennas in the same series. What is important is the signal strength and the quality of the signal path as shown in the tvfool report. It is possible to have a very poor quality signal from a transmitter that is less than 10 miles away if there is a hill in the way. That problem is common at the US-Canada border because of the escarpment.
And the term "Omnidirectional" has caused us endless hours grief because the hopes of a user have been raised to unrealistic heights, thinking that he can use just one antenna aimed in just one direction to get excellent reception of all channels in all directions. If there were such a magic antenna, the CATV systems wouldn't need to do this:
