Weird high tech problem

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TV tuner characteristics do vary. I recall a possibly defective tuner in an OTA capable TIVO unit that might have been a blessing somewhere above the arctic circle, but 35 miles from the antenna farm, it was so ridiculously super sensitive as to be unusable.

And there are many 'dogs' out there too. In the OTA world it's important to be sensitive to the weak signals but not overload on the strong ones.

Additionally, when we had NTSC VHF signals, they tended to overcome some obstacles way better than the (mostly) UHF signals ATSC uses now. In our new digital realm, you're much more line of sight.

One thing I really like about ATSC though, multiple receiving antennas can be combined for reception in different directions without a rotator now.

Not widely appreciated however, when combining antennas, a regular splitter with 1 GHz bandwidth like Radio Shack used to sell for $5 doesn't work all that well as the incoming signal on one leg tends to shoot out the other leg and not appear on the combined tap. Using a 2.4 GHz splitters yields better results as the port to port isolation is better and more of the incoming signals make it to your TV.