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Originally Posted by tis
I don't know much about this subject but I thought the whole idea was to make the reception for antennas or rabbit ears better not worse. If that is so, why wouldn't you get the Maine stations better? Course you may have to get a new tv or the conversion box if your set is older.
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Actually that is a misconception caused by some of the poorly written public service broadcasts covering the conversion.
One of the primary reasons of this act was to move certain UHF TV transmiiters out of a swath of the 700 Mhz bandwidth to allow new channels for public safety. Part of an overall nationwide plan for first responder radio interoperability and data sharing.
In actuality, as WMUR has correctly reported, the conversion from analog to digital transmission along with a shift from VHF to UHF frequencies results, for a number of reasons, in a smaller reception path footprint.
But if you do receive the digital signal, in most cases you will receive a much better picture/audio signal. In some cases that means that you will need to replace or beef up your present antenna receiving system.