Larry wrote:
"Bill Kearney" wrote in
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Bull****. Stations use UHF because the VHF space was already crowded.
They can move back to VHF after the cut-off.





Either the channel space 2-6 or 7-13, probably the latter, will be in
the next round of auctions after the FCC lawyers run the licensees off
it.

Charleston TV was 2,4,5 and ETV on 7 since TV was introduced. All these
channels are on high UHF and the picture locks on my Philips UHF panel
antenna at 30' over the roof every time it rains. The picture locks
when the C-17 aluminum cloud flies anywhere near me. It's a horrible TV
system I bet the cable companies had their corrupt little hands into
foisting on us...just another nail in the over-the-air coffins.

2,4 and 5, the main network channels had good VHF coverage all the way
to Augusta, the US 601 ridgeback that goes through Orangeburg, SC, up
across the lakes to nearly Florence and Myrtle Beach. FCC has solved
that problem. They barely can make Summerville, now, on digital with a
million watts on upper UHF. Cable operators got what they wanted.....



Happy Holidays, Larry...and I hope you have a healthy 2009

HK (from wrecked.boats, the former boating newsgroup)