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"clifto" <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:to16j5-bv5.ln1@remote.clifto.com...
> Ron T. wrote:
>> The station engineer, stating that the digital signal could 
>> "theoretically"
>> go farther, caught me off guard. If you have, say, a 180 mhz signal at 
>> 10kw,
>> it doesn't matter if it's carrying an analog or digital content, it's 
>> going
>> to be the same damn signal strength under whatever conditions at whatever
>> distance.
>

> What DOES matter, as you perceive, is the sensitivity of the encoding and
> decoding process to noise. You can make out an analog signal that is FAR
> lower in signal-to-noise ratio than is possible with a digital signal. So
> if the signal is the same strength, but too far down in the noise floor to
> detect, the analog signal gets viewed and the digital isn't there, for all
> practical purposes.
>

Zactly, clifto.

Not much info out there, and what is being provided can be misleading.

I'm still seeing commercials that are stating, "If you watch TV with an 
outside antenna, you're not going to get anything after Feb 2009".

What bullshit. That's gotta have more than a few old ladies running out to 
buy a damned digital set to keep watching their soaps.

I need a TV built like my Miltronix-rebuilt R390a.

Bud, pull the antenna, crank it up, and there just *ain't* no noise.

Put two blow torches local, 10 khz apart, and you won't even know the other 
one's there, and I can still hear a mic cracked in the Gulf of Mexico on a 
piece of wire stuck in the high impedance antenna input.

Yes.....I need a TV built like that.