2,000 ft of awesome HD coming to Chicago?

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Buzzcut @ Oct 26th 2005 9:52AM

Bah, every few years there is another "tall tower" proposed for Chicago. They never get built. Trump is building a tower in Chicago that was supposed to be the biggest in the world, but that was cut down to 90 stories. Seems that nobody wants to live high up after 9/11.

About 4 years ago, the cover of Pop Sci had a Chicago tower design that looked very similar to the "tall tower". It never got built, and I suspect that this one won't either.

The bottom line is that the Sears Tower antennas were recently upgraded for HD. The thing is 110 stories, how much higher do the antennas need to be?

The problem with HD in Chicago is not the height of our antennas, it is that one of the HD stations is in the low VHF band (Ch 3). That's an awful place for television, there is a ton of electrical interference on low VHF. Combine that with the fact that they're broadcasting at the wattage of a lightbulb, and you have a huge reception problem.

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