The romance of the old tv antennae days...

There was a point in time  years ago where I loved the idea of getting programming from a further away location.. We got it via UHF antennae, these here remind me of those from back then,, These are likely digital directional antennas that likely pull a better signal than UHF ever was..  After a few years for our UHF we finally were able to get cable tv and that ended UHF.. In fact we would eventually get rid of all our antennas and join the league of everyone who would have cable tv and eventually I would get Dish, eventually going back to cable tv.. Now the push is on to go back to antennae and I would love to go back to that but we just don't have the signal strength to get into our valley.. The valley isn't that great but if you know how signals carry you know that this valley we live in is actually quite deep and signal killing.. There is this valley as we go all along that is a signal killer all up and down..   Every little town has this issue.. It's why you don't see antennas in any of the towns or if you do they are on incredibly tall towers..  No short posts on any of these...

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