[opendtv] Re: Reception Issues

Glad to know you are not immediately affected by the fire, except for DTV reception.
What you describe below is exactly what I have written about for over 5 years.
The DTV images drop out for a few seconds to 3 or 4 minutes and then reappear, but the dropouts continue daily on all digital channels. I cannot watch or record a sports event and 
get any satisfaction of knowing what happened throughout the game.
The conclusion I draw from this is that our present DTV system does not replicate 
the coverage provided by analog NTSC.


John Willkie wrote:

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

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