There has been talk among station executives about installing a taller mast at Alpine or placing antennas on everything from Bear Mountain to the top of the Chrysler Building.

Other subscribers are considering canceling cable altogether and placing antennas on their roofs for VHF broadcast channels, 2 to 13.

Some races place antennas or timing mats at both the start line and the finish line, which allow the exact net time to be calculated.

With so many companies clamoring for a limited number of sites, the preferred practice is for providers to place new antennas on an existing structure that another carrier already occupies.

The building's height allowed radio station WHK to place antennas on the building to increase range of the 1420 kHz signal.

Already, his troops have scouted more than 350 sites to place antennas and base stations.

The company prefers to place antennas on existing structures, such as a cable TV tower, office building or water tower.

But because the system is so inexpensive, it wouldn't be difficult to address this problem by placing antennas closely together in congested areas.

The earliest cable systems were, in effect, strategically placed antennas with very long cables connecting them to subscribers' television sets.

Jon Mitchell, national sales director, TeleFlage: "The church was going through a renovation, and we were able to work with the diocese to place antennas inside the spires.