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Message: [QUOTE="FOX TV, post: 32781, member: 4493"]EEEKK, I never wanted to get a discussion started about a companies ethics, or in some opinions, a lack of them. I am just an ordinary broadcast engineer who works in a very difficult TV reception market that has a mixed assortment of bands and transmitter locations. We operate two transmitters located in opposite directions, along with this being a LOW V / HIGH V / UHF mixed market. Our field strength tests started about 3 months ago in order to compare the FCC coverage maps to the real world, and to help selected viewers with reception issues. Being a mixed band market has led me in a search for a compact VHF antenna that actually works well in a small package so that people would not object to its physical size, and not abandon the back plane reflector concept that works so well on UHF in killing ghosts.I had a discussion a few years ago with a viewer who wanted a Direc TV waiver, and he said that he would not have an ugly TV antenna on his house. I politely pointed out that if he had a Direc TV dish mounted on his house that he indeed already had an ugly TV antenna mounted on his house, and that it performed the same function as an OTA antenna. I told him that his dish received digitally formated TV signals that he wanted to view, and it was no different than an OTA antenna that performed the very same function.He did not even realize that his dish was a type of antenna. This sparked my interest in trying to reducing the size of a VHF back plane reflector type of antenna that we see in use on UHF with great success at addressing the multi-path issues we see with digital.We cannot avoid the fact that the vast majority of consumer goods are manufactured in CHINA. If you want to stand on a high horse and buy American built products only, you will find great disappointment by not being able to find all of the products you need or desire. I object greatly to the "China Syndrome" myself, but this is the world we live in like it or not.Every company in the world has some type of marketing strategy that is designed to produce maximum return on their investment, but that is where ethics come into play, and the ones who don't practice reasonable ethics at some point in time will cease to exist.I still think I have proven to myself that the C series of UHF antennas work very well in this problematic reception market, and would be very interested in testing their VHF antenna in this area where signals bounce around like they are part of an old pong game from the 1970's.We can all thank the FCC for folding to pressure and not limiting DTV to the UHF bands as was the original plan. Every time the Government  has a chance to do it right, they seem to insist on screwing it up. I won't even mention health care.....[/QUOTE]

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