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Default The year we lose our TV signals

On Jan 2, 7:05�pm, Neon John wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:02:03 -0800 (PST), Andy wrote:

JohnR66 wrote:


I suspect the only people who really should be ****ed are the ones who
already had a good quality, high mounted antenna and are having trouble
getting the signal. This should be very rare. Second are the people who will
have to upgrade their antenna, get a higher mast and upgraded feed line.
This can be costly if professionally installed.


Andy writes


�I think you �are incorrect....


�In my area, stations have been broadcasting digital signals together
with the old analog signals for over a year.,


That leads to a point that nobody else has mentioned. �When they pull the plug
on the analog side, many stations will dramatically up their digital power.