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Default TV reception (in Dickinson Texas)

On Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:26:48 AM UTC-4, o m e H o m e G u y wrote:
micky wrote:



THere is a story going 'round that all current stations are UHF.




Not so. Most are but not all. He should look at antennaweb.org


or the other one whose name I'veforgotten to see what actual


channels are used for the stations he might get.




http://tvfool.com/



The OP is in Dickinson or League City Texas.



This is a TVFool report on what stations he can receive:



http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...c68295e735d 7



Seems to be about 34 possible channels he can receive, with 33 of them

being 27 to 29 miles away, and 1 channel being 9 miles.



Almost all possible channels are 28 miles away - actually about 2 dozen

channels are clustered at around 285 degrees (almost due west) from him,

in a very tight spread around 28 miles away. There are about 5 other

channels located at 320 compass degrees (exactly north-west) with all of

those also in a tight spread about 28 miles away.



There are actually many analog channels on the air in his area - about

15 (if by virtue their call signs end with "-LD" or "-LP" or "-CD" and

they have no virtual channel identifier). The number of analog channels

seems to outnumber the digital channels.



How can the village idiot be consistently wrong about so many things?
LD analog. More analog TV channels than digital? Really? I guess
you didn't hear about the transition to ATSC many years ago.
Good grief you're dumb. Thanks for proving it yet again!