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    Any ideas?

    Check all connections, especially those outdoors for a center wire that is too short that when it gets cold shorten up enough to lose contact.
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    A new year. Anything changed OTA in your market?

    Dish just put up a notice (today 1-1-15) that KWSD-TV (Sioux Falls, SD ) elected not to renew it's carriage on Dish. Golden West (SD telephone/cable coop) has a splash that KWSD has technical problems. Upper Midwest Broadcasting has a notice that KWSD has transmitter problems. Dunno what...
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    Ladderline

    Just type "ladderline" into Google, you will get quite a few hits.
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    add vhf ?

    I have a cut channel 13 with UHF yagis about 30 inches above and below it. The upper UHF and the 13 go into a 7777. The lower UHF has a separate cable, though I have a UHF Join-Tenna for the UHF antennas if I ever get around to installing it :-) My transmitting towers are from 58-78 miles...
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    Head Scratcher, 64772

    I don't quite understand the problem people are having with VHF signals except perhaps with an indoor antenna in a urban setting. I'm in south central South Dakota and pick up 10 and 13 which are 58 miles north, and channel 7 which is 59 miles south with 90-100 signal strength. Also a UHF...
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    Antenna Advice

    A friend of mine bought an antenna from Radio Shack. Don't know what the model number is but it's about 6 ft. long and around $60. It's channel 7-13 + UHF. He put it in his attic and pulls in stations 50+ miles away. Should work fine for the top seven on your list.
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    pre-amplifier

    Did you rescan your channels? I'm guessing they went back to VHF. I'm 60 miles from the Basset translator, lost them and didn't realize they had killed their analog on 7 and switched the digital to channel 7. They put in an excellent signal on digital now. If the transmitter is...
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    Remote A/B Switch?

    Radio Shack sells a remote controlled A/B switch for $43.99. Catalog # 15-1968
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    Closeups: new Echostar TR-50 OTA HD Digital to Analog DVR Receiver

    With QAM capability and the addition of a cable card could it not also be used as a set top box on cable? Or with a few modifications couldn't it be sold to cable companies as a set top box? Charlie wants to sell hardware, looks to me like this fits in there somewhere.
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    Help w/ choosing Jointenna

    You want it for the frequency.
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    Antenna Tower

    Here's one place you can buy a tower. http://www.criticaltowers.com/BX%20Series%20Towers/Web%20Pages/BX%20Series%20Tower%20Page.htm or just do a Google search for "ham radio towers" and follow some of the links. I don't have an address or link but there is a place in Nebraska where you...
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    Jumping into the HDTV realm...

    I'm using a Channel Master 3023 (80" long yagi) with a 7777 preamp. About $120 for both from Stark. I pull in 3 stations from 60 miles in good shape. They are all running low power at the present. I think I could easily eliminate the preamp if they were on high power.