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In article <BtzH14.K2D@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ffujita@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Frank Fujita) writes:
>tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
>>I don't know where you live, but around here the over-the-air channels
>>come in fuzzy, snowy, and ghosty. Basically, it's a choice between
>>rapacious cable fees or nothing to watch.
>
>I paid about $50 for a RECOTON (rabbit ears type) antenna.  It is
>powered, and receives (in Savoy) 3,12,15,17 *very* well

The three worst problems with TV reception are location, location, and
location.

If you're within line-of-sight of the transmission towers, with no
mountains or buildings in between or nearby, you can get a reasonably
clear signal free of snow and multipath (ghosting) interference. I used
to live in a 3rd floor apartment in NE Urbana. I could get all the local
channels quite well with a simple unamplified indoor antenna. I have
since moved ONE BLOCK away from there, to a second story apartment in a
brick building. My over-the-air reception went completely down the
toilet. I tried all sorts of indoor antennas, including amplified
models; none helped. At that point I resigned myself to being raped once
a month by the cable company. If I could mount an outdoor antenna or a
sat dish, I'd dump RapeVision in a second. Alas, that will have to wait
until I move again.