Ooops ... just clearing out my mailbox and discovered that I forgot to append to this thread the fact that Tom Dombrosky quickly replied with the following: "I got confirmation from the makers of the Air2PC card that it can tune QAM channels up to 860mhz before I made a patch for the linux driver. They said it was a misprint in their spec sheet and that only for OTA it stopped at 806mhz. So any card that has the nxt2002 demodulator on it should be able to tune QAM channels over 806mhz with the right drivers." So, in the interest of closure, or perhaps just for the sake of talking to myself, all appears to be fine.