It was a normal August evening and I had just sat down to watch the evening news when I noticed something weird – no signal from my favorite local broadcaster, Global BC. No matter, I thought, Sometimes the over-the-air feed into the datacenter where I have my tuning equipment can be a little flaky due to a mountain in the signal path, I could switch to the yagi antenna on the roof of my house which has more gain and a better line of sight and generally works great. A few clicks later and I had a signal… sort of. Continue Reading