[opendtv] Re: Florida OTA TV example
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:14:40 -0400
Albert Manfredi wrote:
> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>
>> The Villages IS located in a gap between markets.
>> But you won't see many antennas there.
>>
>
> Catch 22.
>
> But it's more than just no signal. Even if you go to the trouble of picking
> up the Daytona Beach stations, there's hardly adequate choice. Going with
> Antennaweb, even people living IN Daytona Beach have very poor OTA service.
> The vast majority of their TV sources are over 40 miles away.
>
> Within the Orlando suburbs, things seem better. Move a little distance away
> from Orlando, even in cities like Daytona Beach and Gainesville, and forget
> about OTA choice. At least, you guys finally got NBC, now that they are
> falling apart at the seams. OTA is definitely a "bare minimum" proposition in
> much of Florida, seems to me.
>
> Bert
>
> _
I'll defer to those still in Gainesville for current reports of whether
they "finally got NBC". But when I left in February the local NBC was
still low power VHF and could not be solidly received with any indoor
antenna I tried, from only a few miles away.
- Tom
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