[BC] Digital TV converter boxes

[Milton Holladay]

Well, you'll just have to gas up your chain saw and cut down all those pine 
trees around you !
M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nakayle at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Digital TV converter boxes


> I'm finding receiving digital OTA can be a major pain. Apparently the
> vegetation around here resonates at UHF frequencies because I have always
> had a problem receiving OTA UHF stations on windy days. Wind doesn't 
> bother
> VHF at all but the moving limbs and leaves of the trees shifts the phase 
> of
> UHF signals. This causes distortion of analog reception which is annoying
> but doesn't make it unwatchable.  But with digital the same amount of wind
> causes the picture and sound to completely disappear for several seconds 
> at
> a time until the decoder can relock on the stream. This is much more than 
> an
> annoyance- it's actually lost of service and will probably make OTA UHF
> completely useless in severe weather when you need information the most.
>
> - Nat Kayle