We live in a rural area and have to get a converter box for the digital analog in Feb.09. Will we get a strong signal from this? We want to cancel our dish, but want to be sure we can still get locals. We are paying $70.00 now just for locals through them
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all depends on the signal, if you get good analog channels with your antenna then you will be fine. Digital signals have about half the range of analog so the old hilltop transmitters are going back into service for rural areas
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First thing you should do is go to this website and enter your address. It will tell you where the stations are and approximately what sort of antenna you will want to purchase and where to point it. http://www.antennaweb.org The antenna and direction, along with any obstacles between you and the transmitting antennas will determine how good of signal you will get. You can get a rough idea how good the signals will be right now if you have an outdoor UHF antenna pointed in the right direction. If you can receive the UHF analog channels pretty well (assuming all of the channels are coming from the same general direction), you will probably pick up the digital channels fine too.
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If you can't get the signal no without the converter then you won't get it with it post Feb '09. The box just converts the digital signal to something your current old TV can display...it has nothing whatsoever to do with reception strength. That's the job of the antenna.
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