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k8sp wrote:
   >An interesting
   >paradox in the whole thing is that digital is a lot harder to pick
   >up using an off-the-air antenna; it doesn't have the range of
   >analog, contrary to initial expectations.  Of course, when/if you
   >do get a digital signal, it is apparently very nice with few
   >artifacts, but then again, if you lose it, it is just gone.  Kaput.

That's thanks to multipath.  yOur receiver can't achieve lock.
They've found the same adventure with digital trunking systems I've
heard.  doesn't fare well under conditions such as multipath which are
quite common on vhf and uhf.
what I wonder is how this cool stuff is going to fare when the band
opens up.  IF your receiver can't grab wahta it needs to decode the
bit stream you've got squat.
That's why I miss analog type too btw.  You could always recover some
of it even if the head of the tape got mangled.  try that with digital
<g>.



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