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The basic technology behind refrigerators has remained largely unchanged since the early 20th century, when household refrigerators became widely available. But now there's a whole new way to make refrigerators work, and our Science and Technology reporter Bond, Ralph Bond, is here with the big news.
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Our guest this show:
Alice Williams, VP of Marketing at T-Mobile.
Peter in Wilmington, Delaware asked: "Wondering if you can give any advice on positioning an indoor HD antenna so that it receives the maximum number of over-the-air television stations."Peter, unfortunately its a case by case situation.Over-the-air TV can be blocked by physical obstacles such as buildings, trees, and mountains and your reception will likely be better if youre close to the source and higher rather than lower to the ground.If an outdoor antenna is an option for you, those tend to work better since you can position them higher and outside the walls of your own home.For an internal antenna, the only thing you can really do is try it in a few different locations and see which ones are less affected by your own home, your neighbors, the obstacles between you and the tower, etc.There are a few websites like nocable.org that will allow you to put in your zip code and get a list of local TV channels and their distance to you as well as the cardinal direction to their antenna. That can help you get a picture of what you may be able to realistically reach, and where youre better off positioning your antenna. Nocable.org in particular will also give each channel a marker to let you know which channels may be easy to get and which will be challenging to receive.
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