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Default Are All US TV Stations Now Broadcasting All-Digital?

There is a lot of mis-information about digital. In my area, all the
stations are broadcasting full power digital in addition to analog. On
Feb. 18th they plan to shut off the analog and shift the digital to
their permanent channel. For example, channel 3 (Burlington, Vt.) is
broadcasting the digital on channel 53 right now but will switch to 22
on Feb. 18th. The engineer tells me that they will slightly REDUCE
power at that time as required by law. I am fortunate that at my
location I get all the channels on digital plus two that I don't receive
on analog at all (5 and 44). I have a friend that only receives one
channel on digital. He has a good roof antenna but there must be some
obstructions in the way such as trees.


---MIKE---
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(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')