[opendtv] Re: Reception Issues

John,
Here's a website that forecasts ducting. Looks like you've had a lot of it lately. 

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_wam.html

John
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:18 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Reception Issues
Some months back, Tom asked hereabouts if anybody else noticed problems with 
recording ota dtv shows, in terms of having severe break ups during the
program.



I said that I hadn't noticed any such issues, but that I hadn't tried to
record too many shows.



It's been a "hot time" in the San Diego/Tijuana region the past few days;
I've watched a lot of tv, but very little entertainment.  Today, I noticed
for a while that I couldn't receive a SINGLE DTV station: LA, San Diego or
Tijuana. I could get the analog companion channel of every DTV station. I didn't have a receiver connected up that would give me signal strength, but 
a few minutes later, they came back.
In terms of distance, three of the DTV signals were about 12 miles away, two were about 19 miles away, and two were 135 or so miles away. The latter two 
are flakey.
Oddly enough, I noticed enhanced reception of distant analog signals. That would tend to work against some type of interference preventing reception of 
distant signals.  At one point, I was watching the analog signal of LPTV
KXLA: more than 120 miles away.



Don't know what conclusions, if any, to draw.



John Willkie jwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

www.EtherGuidesystems.com / www.OurEPG.com

Skype jmwillkie / Lab ++52 664 290-7526 / Mobile +1 619 770-5760









----------------------------------------------------------------------
You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:
- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org 
- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word 
unsubscribe in the subject line.

Other related posts: