JB wrote:
Right now, the Analog channels that I get solid and noise free seem to be
subject to fades on their UHF DTV counterpart. Makes me wonder how it will
...
Ed K7AAT

Really? Something is quite wrong there!

Digital signals should require much less power to deliver the same
"quality" signal.

Indeed, digital is an upgrade to all existing systems. Listen to an
analog signal, then a digital signal--whether over hardwire (remember
the phone adds with the "dropping of a pin") or AM/SSB over RF ... can
you just imagine attempting an analog signal over a dial-up modem or
broadband? We would still be in the "internet stone-age!"

All that really does not take any thought at all ...

Regards,
JS