Re: How will the US local area stations commerate the end of

On May 4, 9:42=A0pm, "Sal M. Onella" <salmone...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
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 >
 > You may have seen this earlier but it sounds likeit may be helpful.
 > The page 2 garbage can version might work as well if it were made
like
 > a shopping cart in welded wire and would offer much less wind
loading.
 > Of course you could always put a 4 bay Channel Master in an actual
 > shopping cart. Heck homeless people take them. Might look a little
 > funny on the roof though.
 >
 > http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~wn17/
 >
 > GG
 >
 > That is wonderful! =A0I had not seen it before tonight.
 >
 > I've toyed with using some sort of screen on the side of the
antenna from
 > which the interfering signals arrive but not known how well it
would work.
 > Apparently it's OK and needs exploring here.
 >
 > There is however, the little matter of explaining to my neighbors
why I have
 > a garbage can on the roof of my typical single family tract home.
=A0(The guy
 > in Atlanta had a flat roof, like maybe a condo building.)
 >
 > I have a solution. =A0If they whine about the garbage can, I'll just
say
 > (completely without context), "Hey, would you rather it be a
shopping cart?"
 > (Reminds me of the joke about the guy with the celery in his ear.)
 >
 > OK, all kidding aside, I clearly have some more building to do.
=A0Watch this
 > space.

I was thinking along the lines of a commercial trash bin like cities
use where they're made of perforated metal. I wonder just how 'deep'
the container has to be to narrow out the beamwidth to an acceptable
angle

GG