Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Laser and Vcr stuff Message-ID: <3041@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 11:15:52 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3041 Posted: Fri Nov 8 11:15:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 07:22:47 EST References: <21169@mgweed.UUCP> <1557@utcsri.UUCP> <2659@brl-tgr.ARPA> <391@tekcbi.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 23 In article <391@tekcbi.UUCP> jimb@tekcbi.UUCP (Jim Boland) writes: [From my original response -- Will Martin]: >>I live in St. Louis city, and get ghosts and color flicking in and out on just >>about all channels, using both an attic antenna, coax fed, and rabbit ears. > [Boland answers:] >What is your antenna doing in the attic. I am not surprised that you have >ghosts and problems. Put it outside above your roof where it belongs >and you will probably see some improvement. The point is that I live *in* the city, in what should be the maximum-signal-contour area, and yet I still have bad reception. I shouldn't need an outside antenna. I shouldn't need an attic antenna, even! I should get a perfect picture with back-of-set rabbit ears and UHF loop antennae, without going to any trouble at all. Yet I don't and I don't know anyone who does! I think there are some basic failures on the part of the TV industry to produce this situation, either in the choice of technical standards that were made historically (NTSC instead of something else when going to color), or in the design and construction of transmitters and antennae, or in the choice of frequencies allocated for this service, or in the design and construction of home TV receivers. Will