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Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie
I call total baloney on that. If you had been getting very snowy out of town analog TV stations, you now likely can't get anything at all from them now that they have changed to all digital. So I'm not about to swallow the notion that digital TV stations get out much further. At best they get out with steady reception at about the same distance as analog stations once did with decent reception with little or no snow.
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It is true you will either get a good picture or none. But if the station was rational a snowy picture turned into a good one.
As to over all range these things are line of sight. If you can't see it you are not going to get a picture. But within that line of sight with rational power ratings the station should have a much improved foot print.
I am roughly 35 miles from the local antennas and get perfect pictures on all but one VHF channel. I suspect that it is located somewhere different or pointed strangely. I do have a rotor I never installed so one of these years I may make my high gain yagi rotatable. Probably never happen though as I have the missing channel on cable.
Deficient power is almost certain to be fixed at least on major stations. They are rated by the number of homes they can reach and will work hard to get to everything workable in their coverage area. The only thing that is hard to fix is dense urban areas with tall building blocking signals and creating multipath.