[opendtv] Re: Reception Issues
- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:09:23 -0700
Yep John, there's nothing like the smell of Southern California in the
morning! Like you, we've experienced it for the last three months or so in
the Santa Barbara area.
My next door neighbor is a S.B. County fire Captain who spends weeks at a
time away fighting various area fires. This morning, while collecting my
news paper, I noticed that his fire retardant covered orange glow vehicle
was back after another absence. Gotta love those guys!
John S., great web page. We could have used such info when operating L Band
radar systems years ago along the gulf coast, where ducting was a major
problem.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Willkie
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:26 PM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: Reception Issues
>
>
> Since this the first time I've seen a similar phenomena, I can't draw
> conclusions. I might have to set up a receiver with ber and
> signal level to
> be on constant standby.
>
> I have to say that I'm not sure at this point if the problem is in the
> receiver, the modulation or interference. I think it's safe to
> assume that
> not all DTV signals in southern California went out at the same time.
>
>
> At this point, the house of one of my brothers was near the fire area, but
> appeared to be okay as of this morning; another brother was just barely
> outside the evacuation area, and my mom had a bit of a scare this morning,
> but those flames never got closer than about 5 miles.
>
> As a native southern Californian, I have long had the "smell of
> brush fires"
> wired into my DNA: I go into action at the first hint of a smell
> of it. The
> worst part (for me) of this whole thing is living, breathing and smelling
> that smell every moment of the past 2-1/2 days. Sure, the ash
> was heavy and
> it was hard to breathe on Sunday afternoon. Imagine a three-day
> wind-fueled
> adrenaline rush. The smell has abated somewhat, but it's still there.
>
> John Willkie
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
> nombre de Cliff Benham
> Enviado el: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:06 PM
> Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: [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
> >
> > www.EtherGuidesystems.com / www.OurEPG.com
> >
> > Skype jmwillkie / Lab ++52 664 290-7526 / Mobile +1 619 770-5760
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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