Re: electrical deaths

In article <vifhen$1rkvr$1@dont-email.me>, blockedofcourse@foo.invalid
says...

 
Most places had 3 or 4 channels.  If you were sited JUST right,
you might catch the fringe of some other metropolitan area's
selection (but, you'd get TWO ABC or two NBC or two CBS, etc.
so not much real variety)
 

 One was an educational one and another was very weak and some
times not even watchable.

 
Tinfoil!!
 

 Now with a couple of hundred channels they
have to fill all that air time with something and we get quantify
instead of quality.+

 
I rescanned the broadcast channels last night.  I think 66.  Of
course, once you ditch the spanish language ones and the shopping
channels... you're still left with shit!
 
 
 

We lived about halfway between two large cities, about 40 miles each way
and used an outside antenna without a rotaor.  The upper vhf antenna was
pointed to one town that had the high channels and the lower vhf antenna
was pointed to the othe town that was about 180 deg fromthe first one. 
To get one of the stations I had to go outside with a pipe wrench and
turn the antenna pipe that was about 20 feet tall to get it. 

I get somewhere around the same 60 to 70 channels on my tv with the
outside antenna. Have to devide that by 3 or 4 as each station has that
many sub channels. With the dish network I get about 200 more with the
package we have. And like you say still shit to watch unless you watch
some of the older stuff from the 1950 to 1980 TV shows but before long
all you get is reruns of them instead of more shows. One station runs
the old Star Trek series off the origional and 3 off shoots of it over
and over.