True but when you do get the digital signals they are so much better. 
Almost hard to believe that you can get that quality "over the air".  In 
fact, if I can receive the station over the air, I will watch the over 
the air broadcast instead of the same broadcast over (non-HD) DirecTV. 
Doesn't seem logical...

If you are looking for an antenna to use on the boat, consider one of 
the 12V car antennas that the "pimp my ride" generation are using for 
the in car TVs.  They have a 12V amplifier built in.  You can find them 
on ebay for around $20 if I recall correctly.  Mine works great.

Sam



Al Thomason wrote:
> Might be OK.  The frequencies used by Digital TV and 'old' analog TV are 
> the same, so the basic antennas are the same (I am still using rabbit 
> ears and a bow-tie UHF with my converter boxes).
>  
> However, Digital tends to be more susceptible to poorer signal 
> strength.  Where as the old Analog TV would still show a picture, just a 
> poorer and poorer one until it was all but snow, with Digital once the 
> signal gets below a certain strength, it just stops working.  All or None.
>  

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S/V Lady of the Lake
PDQ 36, Hull #15
Melbourne, FL

S/V Stories She Could Tell
Endeavour 37, Hull #454
Destroyed by Hurricane Frances 2004
Reborn and sailing again in 2007

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you do it for the stories you can tell."

Jimmy Buffett
"Stories We Could Tell"
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