If the digital is on a very different frequency, then the frequency change is a reason why digital reception may be problematic. For example, if you are using a VHF antenna to try to receive a UHF digital signal, that will be problematic.
------ Original Message ------ Received: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:14:14 PM PST From: wd8chl <wd8...@gmail.com> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Somewhat OT - How to make HDTV *really* work > > That's the gripe. If I put up an antenna that works fine for analog, > there is no excuse for it NOT to work with digital, except that digital > must be crap. Rf is RF. > Virtually everybody I have talked to has had nothing but problems with > DTV. Invariably they get fewer channels, and stations that are good to > excellent in analog can frequently be unwatchable in digital. To see a > digital as reliably as an analog is the exception, not the rule. >