[InHam] [KA9QJGREPEATERS] Digital conversion could be rough for rural areas

[Dan Evans]

Yeah, I could go for that.  I need one of those 70' tower coupons:-)

73
Dan
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Paul Webster wrote:
> I can't imagine anyone out in the rural areas trying to pick up an 
> analog tv signal w/rabbit ears, not to mention a digital tv signal.
> They need a kick butt fringe tv antenna on a tower feeding a signal 
> into a kick butt amp that feeds signal into a kick butt converter box 
> or a digital tv.
> I thought that all the tv veiwers out in the country already had 
> towers for their tv antennas, but now that I think of it, the last 
> time I was out in the country to visit family who live in rural 
> Renselear, Indiana, I didn't see a lot of towers at all, & being a 
> ham, I notice towers.
> Maybe the gov should give $s/coupons to people to buy antennas, 
> towers, coax, & amps also.
>
> 73/75 de ka9jwx, Paul Lewis Webster
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