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<< Previous   of   Next >>   ADVERTISEMENT   HAVE YOUR SAY Feel strongly about something? Share it with the community by writing a letter to the editor. You’ll need to include your name, address and daytime phone number. (We’ll only publish your name and hometown.) We reserve the right to edit letters, but if you keep yours to 250 words or less, we won’t ask you to shorten it. If your letter is published, please wait 30 days before submitting another. Send it to: E-mail: letters@heraldnet.com Mail: Letters section The Herald P.O. Box 930 Everett, WA 98206 Fax: 425-339-3458 Have a question about letters? Contact Carol MacPherson (cmacpherson@heraldnet.com or 425-339-3472).   Published: Friday, January 30, 2009 DIGITAL TV Converting hasn't been easy for us A personal account of TV conversion from analog to digital -- unsuccessful: 1. We live 30 miles and exactly due north of Seattle on a plateau 350 feet above sea level (Lake Goodwin area). 2. For 20 years, since retirement, we have received a perfect picture from stations 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11 through a rotatable roof antenna without changing direction. The antenna system has a signal booster also. 3. When the converter box was hooked up, only two of the six stations were received, plus five or six other unfamiliar stations, but four of our regular viewing stations were missing. If some stations are received, why not all? 4. We tried reorienting the antenna east and west of due south with no improvement. 5. Is the problem due to stations presently broadcasting with less than a full strength digital signal? 6. Or do we have an antenna problem? What is the remedy? 7. Answers to calls to TV stations were not definitive or helpful. So we are still analog. 8. We cannot believe our situation is so unique that the government could not have anticipated our problem and provided solutions to the problems. 9. Is converting analog to digital a collusion, a way to promote paid TV and collect more taxes? DON and MARTHA (PAT) PASSOW Stanwood

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