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If you still happen to be struggling with the DTV change...
You can do some simple station lookup he http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cdbs/cdbs_docs/dtv_search.cfm It may help you figure out what the station calls itself and what RF frequency they are suppose to be on. Lots of fun yesterday around here when some stations had their temporary DTV and new permanent DTV channels broadcasting at the same time. On our converter box (Digital Stream) in the Menu-Channel Edit area you can see both the station ID and RF channel info. Huge boondoggle in my opinion, but they didn't ask me about it. Too busy counting up all the money bid for the vacated frequencies... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On Jun 13, 3:45*pm, Leon Fisk wrote:
... Huge boondoggle in my opinion, but they didn't ask me about it. Too busy counting up all the money bid for the vacated frequencies... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids *MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email Around here many of them are reverting to their original upper VHF frequency. It looks like all that was freed up was VHF-lo and UHF above 700 MHz. My car door opener transmits at ~350MHz, on the nominally military band from 225 to 400MHz. jsw |
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Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Jun 13, 3:45 pm, Leon Fisk wrote: ... Huge boondoggle in my opinion, but they didn't ask me about it. Too busy counting up all the money bid for the vacated frequencies... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email Around here many of them are reverting to their original upper VHF frequency. It looks like all that was freed up was VHF-lo and UHF above 700 MHz. Hmm. We've got a mix of options here (Seattle, WA) some stations are going back to their VHF-LO spots (KOMO 4) and others are hanging on to their new UHF locations. KING 5 is staying on RF channel 48. It appears that, other than the upper-most UHF frequencies (70 and up), nothing has been saved. -- Paul Hovnanian ------------------------------------------------------------------ Just an armadillo on the shoulder of the information superhighway. |
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Lotsa luck figuring out the FCC form. You have to enter so much information to get it to work -
that you don't need it. Bob Swinney "Leon Fisk" wrote in message ... If you still happen to be struggling with the DTV change... You can do some simple station lookup he http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cdbs/cdbs_docs/dtv_search.cfm It may help you figure out what the station calls itself and what RF frequency they are suppose to be on. Lots of fun yesterday around here when some stations had their temporary DTV and new permanent DTV channels broadcasting at the same time. On our converter box (Digital Stream) in the Menu-Channel Edit area you can see both the station ID and RF channel info. Huge boondoggle in my opinion, but they didn't ask me about it. Too busy counting up all the money bid for the vacated frequencies... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:12:42 -0500, "Robert Swinney"
wrote: snip Lotsa luck figuring out the FCC form. You have to enter so much information to get it to work - that you don't need it. You don't have to fill in everything, just one item and hit return. The more blanks you fill in, the more precise the answer though... From what I can figure out after checking my local stations though is that the listings give the old temporary DTV channel. Take that back, someone must have noticed the error. It looks like they have the new permanent DTV frequencies listed today. On both Saturday and Sunday they were still showing the old temp channels. -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On Jun 13, 3:45*pm, Leon Fisk wrote:
On our converter box (Digital Stream) in the Menu-Channel Edit area you can see both the station ID and RF channel info. Huge boondoggle in my opinion, but they didn't ask me about it. Too busy counting up all the money bid for the vacated frequencies... Just for ****s & giggles, I built one of those "coathanger" antennas (just google "coathanger dtv antenna") Works great. Even if you bought all the parts (I had everything in my junk box), it would cost less than ten bucks. |
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On Jun 16, 10:01*am, rangerssuck wrote:
Just for ****s & giggles, I built one of those "coathanger" antennas (just google "coathanger dtv antenna") Works great. Even if you bought all the parts (I had everything in my junk box), it would cost less than ten bucks. My UHF "HDTV" antenna is two 6" aluminum standoffs jammed into the ends of a short plastic hose. It will pick up a VHF station about 20 miles away with few dropouts. jsw |
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On Jun 16, 12:13*pm, Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Jun 16, 10:01*am, rangerssuck wrote: Just for ****s & giggles, I built one of those "coathanger" antennas (just google "coathanger dtv antenna") Works great. Even if you bought all the parts (I had everything in my junk box), it would cost less than ten bucks. My UHF "HDTV" antenna is two 6" aluminum standoffs jammed into the ends of a short plastic hose. It will pick up a VHF station about 20 miles away with few dropouts. jsw Yeah, I did pretty well with just a couple of feet of wire stuck in the antenna jack (some people say the do OK with just an unbent paper clip), but a half hour with a ruler, wire cutters and screw gun, and my lowest signal strength is 74 out of 100, on 45 channels, with no dropouts. I know for sure, that there are differences in the sensitivty of various tuners, and some require more antenna than others, but given the simplicity of this design, I can't see ever paying for an antenna. |
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