allah.ollah

How nice to reply to someone who wishes to speak of the engineering and technical aspects of all this and not just someone who wants to watch
'pretty pictures". I am located 25 miles from the Louisiana coast, about 50 miles SSW of New Orleans. With my rig, I receive every N O station perfectly,digital and analog. I also receive the major network stations from Baton Rouge, about 89 miles away, both analog and digital. I also receive 2 stations from Lafayette, La. which is about 150 miles away. The analogs are about 75% reliable and digitals about 60% due to me being beyond their LOS over the horizon. I forgot to mention on my last post that I also have a hi-gain vhf antenna with a low noise (2.8) preamp going into a Channel Master combiner along with my XG-91 setup. All this is on a 60 foot tower with an extra heavy duty rotor. My biggest accomplishment with all this is my ability to receive network V's and U's from the Gulf Coast (Biloxi, Gulfport, Mobile, Pensacola, etc.) at a distance of 140-180 miles. There are moderate dropouts sometimes but when even mild tropo comes in, reception improves dramatically. All this is possible due to the nature of my flat, open terrain and the salt water corridor, and my setup, of course. My digital signal strength (not picture quality, are you all listening???) on the Gulf Coast channels average about 40% so there are dropouts however, I tolerate this, since this is the nature of the beast at this distance. Since I live in hurricane country all this has to come down when storms come calling. It takes me almost 2 days to remove everything. However, I am proud of what I have and don't mind the work.