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"Richard Harrison"
I understand. My strugle with TV reflections involved antennas atop the corporate headquarters. We had to have a perfect color picture in the executive lounge and there was no cable yet. The founder, chairmman and CEO was proud of his luxury and toys. We had a lot of signal, but too many signals due to other skyscrapers around ours. With sharp enough antennas we were able to clean up the mess. Better a hero than a goat! _____________ Here's another war story. Many Chicago TV stations moved to the new Hancock Bldg to use one of the RCA antennas that were stacked there on two masts. When one of the big network O&O stations flipped the switch to start using this new site, the on-air picture at their studio turned to absolute garbage, right in front of all the executive staff gathered in a boardroom to celebrate. The studio was located about four blocks from the Hancock Bldg, and close to the null in the elevation pattern of the new 2-bay antenna they had switched to. Most of the RF they could pick up was from reflections. I think they finally installed a very high gain antenna skewed upward up at a large elevation angle focused at the top of the Hancock Bldg, but the best picture they got was never very good. RF (RCA field supervisor during the installation and commissioning of the TV antenna systems) |
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