The person asked a simple question - they said, we have cable television and can receive all but one station on cable and we want to put up a antenna that will receive that station from a distance of about 20 miles.
They didn't take into account where they lived or what power level the station was transmitting on. Just the distance between the transmitter and the receive antenna.
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The problem with saying that you only want to watch one television station is that once you turn the television on and you find a station that you like, you will want to watch it.
If the reception for that station is anything less than 100%, you will get aggravated because you can see it but it doesn't work right. That will make you want to watch it even more. Before long, you will find that on the nights that Deadlest Catch or Ice Road Truckers or American Chopper isn't on - that your cable / satellite TV will be shut off and you will be watching the OTA television, even though you have cable and 250 stations.
Over The Air television is going to give it one last shot at being number one before they give up the ghost and become all infomercials and news - just like AM radio.
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I was born in 1964, that era is considered to be the end of the baby boomers.
Why do I think that so many babies were born between the end of WW II and 1964? Because there was no television!
We can blame some of it on depressions and recessions and the rest on boredom. You worked had all day and you came home and you ate supper together and you took a interest in what your children did in school and what your wife did at home. You spent time with your family and at night you went to sleep together.
Then along came television and all of a sudden, people didn't have to go out on a date. People didn't have to get dressed up to go to the movies to watch a show. People didn't have to spend their money to watch a movie. They stayed home and in time they got bored of each other and felt unappreciated and in time the divorce rate boomed and people didn't stay together very long and they didn't even bother to get married.
Mom got a job and bought TV dinners and people sat around the boob tube and watched television and got dumber by the minute.
Soon the standard of living got so high that mom had to get out of the house and get a job - just to make ends meet.
Then you ended up with a bunch of stupid kids that looked just like Bevis and Butt Head. They sat on the sofa all day and watched television and played video games and got fat and didn't do anything and pretty soon they refused to leave the nest and get a job, work or do anything. Now we have a bunch of kids that wants top dollar to start work and a hamburger in McDonalds costs $6!
Octomom's that has babies like a gerbil and doesn't even have a job and the poor sucker that goes to work every day pays higher taxes so she can live a decent lifestyle and have better health insurance than the person that works.
Unemployment will reach 10% across the US by the end of the year.
The states are going broke with all the money going out and nothing coming in. The federal government is going broke with all the money going out and nothing coming in.
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