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In article <MSALETNI.93Jan7084800@jade.tufts.edu> msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik) writes:
|But I find it hard to believe that the "air" channels are picked up
|with solely an antenna.  When I grew up in the flight path of Westover
|Air Force Base, both the cable office/transmission centre and the big
|tower (receiving), weren't far away.  When a C5-A Galaxy flew over,
|the broadcast stations on cable never wavered one bit.

Look around by your cable company head-end building.  They can, and do
if necessary, put up separate single channel highly directional
antennas aimed at the transmitter of each station.  These are
generally good enough to reject signals (multipath, ghosting) that are
not wanted.  The antenna on your roof is at best two or three
broadband and only moderately directional antennas.  (One or two cover
the VHF band and the other is for UHF.)

As I understand it.

	/J
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