Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:fvibv6$f74$1
@aioe.org:

> Sadly that was often more entertaining than what was available on any
of
> the eight channels... ;-)
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>

WHOA! Big City boy! We got ONE snowy picture from WSYR, Channel 3,
Syracuse, NY and a tiny hint of something too snowy to watch with no
audio from WHEN, Channel 8 I think it was, in Rochester, NY.....

This was from a dual conical stack VHF antenna at 90 feet!

The whole town spent night after night crowded into my father's tiny
living room watching the only Raytheon 5" TV set anyone had ever
seen.....1949 to 52, somewhere in there. I was a tiny boy...well, never
really "tiny"...(c;