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Originally Posted by sjwoo
... So about $150, I'd guess. Erratic reception wouldn't be the end of the world. I know it wouldn't be anything near cable, stability-wise, and that's all right.
I don't think a tower is anything I'd do, though. Top of the roof would be as high as I go, and that's about 30 ft.
I am still curious about life before cable -- what did people do in my town when all they could pick up were public access channels? How did they watch Carson, the Super Bowl, the World Series, etc.?
- Sung
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An Antennas Direct XG91 is currently $69 at Amazon and Antennacraft offers their Y10713 for $46 at their web store. By the time you add a 10' mast, tripod, preamp... etc. you are at the $150 mark or a bit more.
If you are not clear of the nearby trees at 30' (your roof top) you will very likely get only those stations with positive NM figures. And erratically at that.
I've not lived in that part of the country so I can only guess... I suspect that in the old analog days, people were happy to see 'snowy' 'ghosty' TV, in part because that was all they had ever seen. Now that we have transitioned to DTV, reception is all or nothing. Here in the Seattle area, I can see the stark contrast between the quality of US DTV broadcasts and the weak analog signals from the Vancouver, BC vicinity. Even though they are weak, I can watch two or three of the Canadian stations, snow and ghosts included. I have yet to see any DTV signals from the Vancouver area because they are too weak, buried in noise.