Cliff Benham wrote: >> Oh, and I didn't add that my previous analog reception required >> an outdoor antenna, or the vast majority of channels would be >> very poor. Whereas now I'm using two of those Antennas Direct >> quad stacked dipoles inside the fireplace, 90 degrees apart and >> mixed together. > > Makes one wonder if *somehow* the chimney is acting as a crude > waveguide for those mostly UHF signals. Yes, I've wondered that myself. The fireplace is one of those masonry ones, that sort of sticks out of the outside wall of the house, if you know what I mean. So that might have something to do with it too, although the antenna elevation is very low. The TV towers aren't all that close. Most are 12.6 miles away, as the crow flies, one is 20.0 miles away, and two are in Baltimore, 46.6 miles away. Back in my earlier DTV days, I was using the outdoor antenna for DTV, and could get more of the Baltimore stations, and one in Annapolis. The indoor antenna scheme, and the way two Baltimore stations went to low power VHF, undid reception of most of those distant stations, but it actually improved reception of the signals coming to me from the West. Anyway, all I'm really saying is, DTV did a whole lot more than just retain spectrum for the broadcasters, as Craig says. It changed OTA TV for the better. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.