Sounds like you know about antennas and radio. You didn't say that before. I was just trying to help, that's all. Most folks these days have never even seen a TV antenna up close, let alone know VHF vs. UHF or how to aim one. Cable and satellite are the norm now (in urban and suburban settings at least).
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The problem with Digital (and having chatted with Marty more than once I know some of his experiences) - picture you are "deep fringe" - with analog (and in this case AM is even better than FM) you might get a static filled signal - in TV, we'll call it "seeing raster", but the human mind can pull signal from the noise. In digital, you drop ONE bit, you have no reception. It's wonderful when it works, and you can get every bit in each digital packet - but with analog, if you lose the same amount of data, you don't lose signal, you just get a noisy signal