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[Jon Platt via NLRS]

I just don't understand why I can't get enough signal sometimes. 

 
I suspect multi-path.  I don't have a deep understanding of the new digital TV format but I suspect that the TV receiver might be having a hard time determining which time varied signal to sync with?   Although I live farther from the Shoreview I see it too.  

Newer TV sets have a build in signal monitor (S-meter) that you can find in the TV's menu structure and when I watch mine I have a signal level of 97/100 or 98/100 and the meter is in the "green", then suddenly the picture drops and the signal reading goes to 0/100 before the TV "relocks" and the picture appears again.

I think the new digital TV format is designed to be sent over a cable and not propagated via the ether?  Maybe a sharper antenna would help .... it may depend on where the strongest multipath reflectors are coming from?

73, Jon
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