Re: Brother, have you been converted?

In article <4829D576.D1B4CB60@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Bill Turlock  <"Bill Turlock "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Rick B." wrote:
> > 
> > UHF tuners were mandated as standard equipment on US televisions
around
> > 1965, but I don't think that the transmitters or receiving antennas
were
> > regarded as being on a par with VHF back then. They improved over time
and
> > now I don't think there's too much difference.
> 
> For a while, I had control of a million watt UHF TV transmitter.
> (The radio station where I announced contracted to remotely
> control the early morning initiation of an Iowa PTV repeater, so
> we'd sign it on in the morning.) 
> 
> A million watts doesn't go all that far at UHF frequencies, BTW.

Doesn't bounce off the ionosphere as AM does, right?

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