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 Message 1025 
 Rob Mccart to JAY HARRIS 
 Re: TV Woes 
 27 Sep 25 07:40:09 
 
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RM> Well that was interesting. I went there and it *appears* I should be
RM> able to get 25 stations altogether, although I think a lot of them are
RM> repeats from the same major network. It did mention though that the
RM> information is about 8 years old so I don't know if it's still accurate.

JH>Another site I found was:

JH>https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php

JH>There were a couple of differences (for my area at least), e.g: the original
  >H tower had been torn down and the new one was put in service in a slightly
d
  >erent area.

Well, using a 25 foot tower and locations within 60 miles this one only
showed me 4 options, 2 Bad, one poor and one fair. The fair one is in
Muskoka and is CHCH TV, not the best station for good programming..
The others were (2) CTV and Global.

It showed 10 if I went for within 100 miles, but I have my doubts you'd
get a decent signal, if any, from 100 miles away..

JH>So we bought two high-gain directional antennas to point in each
  >direction.  It works well enough, and if there is heavy rain it
  >can sometimes pixelate or drop out.

Many years ago, before rotors, we were out in the country and we
had 2 heads on the antenna as well. It did work pretty well..

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