Digital Signal Strength Is Low
Welcome back!
Does that title sound familiar? Ever seen that message before? We see it quite frequently, due to the fact that we live 90 miles from the nearest television station.
Last Christmas we all went in together and bought Mom a new television. We didn’t have the resources to go all-out and get an HDTV, but we did make it a point to get her one that could receive digital signals.
Now, because the only station we can get is so far away, every time it’s storming - like last weekend when the remnants of hurricane Ike passed over us - instead of weather reports from the station’s all-weather-all-the-time sub-channel, we see “Digital Signal Strength Is Low”.
Big help that is.
If we’re just watching the station’s main channel and that happens, we still have the option of switching the TV to analog mode and watching the non-digital broadcast, complete with ghosts and snow. At least that’s better than a black screen with text crying about signal strength.
…at least until February 17th when the government has decreed that all analog signals must be terminated.
Why is that? Does the government have some sort of problem with people in rural areas being able to watch broadcast television without having to pay for cable? Seriously, I want to know.
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