On Feb 2, 2005, at 08:08, Taylor Jacob wrote:

Quoting Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

A 6-footer is squat. You still have plenty of room for improvement in the
antenna area. For example, I have a 12ft yagi boom antenna on my rooftop
with
a 10ft mast. (And all-RG6-QS cabling and a signal amp). I get everything
quite nicely now, even in less-than-stellar weather conditions (Seattle
area).
Just curious, how many miles away from the towers are you that you still
get good signal? I'm wondering how far ATSC can be receieved from.

It depends on your antenna and terrain.. There is no single answer.. Someone in
the plains might easily be able to get a station 80 miles away.. Someone in the
mountains, or in a dense urban environment might not be able to get a usable
signal from a transmitter 5 miles away..

That's what I was going to say. Terrain makes a huge difference. Seattle qualifies as a dense urban area, plus lots of trees, hills, moisture, etc., to cause multipath issues, so me being able to get FOX from about 35 miles out is fairly impressive. If I lived in eastern Washington trying to pull stations from Spokane, I could probably go without a signal amp using my same antenna and be able to get everything from over 100 miles out (which I've heard of people doing).

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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