[opendtv] Re: FCC DTV Coverage data

Albert Manfredi wrote:

Dale Kelly wrote:

The FCC has established a website allowing
consumers to determine whether they receive your
over-the-air television signals. You can contact
the website through the following link:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/maps/


Hey, cool. Thanks, Dale.
I tried it. Here's my reception comparison: 

The web site is correct for my location ... except ...
that they list as "weak"  a channel that is hopeless to
receive at all without a big directional antenna
on a tall tower, because it is channel 42 at 68 miles
and we have a channel 41 at 15 miles (both on 1300 foot towers),
the opposite direction. There is typically a 40 dB strength difference,
even with a 16 dB gain Yagi at 25 feet pointing at the weak one,

Well, at midnight two analog stations near me turned
off their carrier.

Some of the others stopped broadcasting regular programming
and started up info on "the transition" ... IN SPANISH
WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES and English Powerpoint! We are not
exactly "Mexico North" .... and all our Mexicans, legal or illegal,
speak English just fine.

Doug McDonald


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