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Originally Posted by Piggie
... I am having a horrible experiences with VHF here where I live. At least 2 of the 4 VHFs I have didn't need to move to VHF, they choose it thinking lots of range, small electric bill. 2 of the stations don't have a sister UHF, they are sister VHFs.
Besides lightning, here in the Gulf coast they spaced VHF's too close together.
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VHFs are a PITA here, too. The stations' answer is "put up a big outdoor VHF antenna or sub to a pay service (which they get a cut per viewer from)." I have an outdoor VHF antenna with good gain, but the problems persist.
I bet quite a few VHF stations have lost a lot of casual viewers, using rabbit ear/loops on secondary sets for catching the news/weather in the kitchen, etc. The average rabbit ear viewer just isn't going to bother installing an outdoor antenna for a portable TV, when all their UHFs work fine.
