[AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

[Indiana Robinson]

Of course you know that we are being screwed on TV reception now... About
30 years ago I bought an old kind of large (for the time) TV at a yard sale
for $5. It had one of those old mechanical tuners. You know, it went clunk,
clunk, clunk as you turned it then you used the "fine tuner".
Living here about 25 miles south of Indianapolis it was always possible to
get all of the Indy channels with rabbit ears or a $6.95 small outside
antenna from K-Mart. With that old yard sale TV just on set-top rabbit ears
I could consistently also get Fort Wayne, Chicago (just one or two), Terre
Haute (west edge of state), east to Dayton Ohio and south to Louisville KY.
On a good day I could pull in from a little farther. In more recent years
before I had satellite TV I had an antenna that looked like a 747 hovering
over the house on a tallish mast with a rotor on it and a signal booster.
None of the newer digital tuner TV's would pull in worth a dime. I don't
know if the limits were in the sets, the broadcasting or both but I do know
what I was getting in the past and and I do know that they took that away
from me. I'm not very happy about that. It seems kind of funny that Pluto
gets better reception than I do...
:-)




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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com