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Old 07-13-2023, 07:54 AM
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My situation was very uncommon. I worked for a TV station in Boston I was the Cheif Engineers assistant, not an engineer myself but I did learn alot and did things I wasn't really supposed to do.

He set up the yagi and installed it at my house. It was a lot bigger than the example I posted. It did get UHF and VHF signals.

The reason he set it up at my house was the headends would call me instead of him at 3am saying we were off the air. I'd turn on the yaggi TV tell them nope it's on your end! I forget the name of the company in Cambride or Somerville. But they would take our OTA signal and send it via fiber to the headends. Yes at the time people were paying for an OTA signal the could get for free until they finaly brought the fiber to the transmitter site in Newton.
Thank you for the information. Boston's antenna farm is in Newton. Are you saying a Boston OTA (Over The Air) station was unable to transmit OTA? If so, what station and about when was that?