"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> 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... ;-)
>>
>
> 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!

Yep, I grew up in 70's in a suburb of Providence, RI. With a typical
rooftop antenna (and the satisfying "cl-clunk, cl-clunk, cl-clunk" of the
rotator!) we could pickup Providence's four stations and most of Boston's
six very well. On days of freak atmospheric cooperation, we could get
Hartford, CT's CBS affiliate, if conditions were _just_ right. (Once in a
blue moon they'd be clear as a Providence station, most days you couldn't
tell them from the snow on unused channels!)