Joerg wrote:
> mike wrote:
>> I've been gearing up for the big ATSC switch.
>> I have a Hughes HTL-HD receiver. Works fine except that
>> it can't receive channel 32.1...no signal.
>> I have an outside antenna on a rotor...nothing.
>>
>> I have two of these receivers that behave identically.
>>
>> I have two other different brand receivers that work just fine on 32.1.
>>
>
> As Dave wrote, maybe the chipset is older and can't deal with multipath
> so well.
>
>
>> I've plugged the antenna into a spectrum analyzer and don't
>> see anything obvious. Plenty of signal. Bart's head is pretty
>> flat across the top of 32.1.
>>
>> I have no idea where to start troubleshoothing this problem.
>> I'm in ****tland, Oregon.
>> Suggestions?
>
>
> Yes: It takes a long time, several seconds, for a DTV box or receiver to
> latch onto a data stream. You can't just zip the rotor through to see
> what'll pop up like in the good old NTSC days. Move it 10 degrees, wait
> 10sec, move another 10 degrees, wait 10sec, and so on. Maybe it sticks
> at some point.
>
> DTV out here has huge problems with multipath. We have a top-notch
> antenna but lose digital channels at random. Analog is fine but only
> until early next year :-(
>
Extremely annoying. You can watch a ghosty picture when a rain storm
p***** thru. But digital just goes away.
I fear there'll be riots in the street come next February...or maybe
there just won't be enough of us non-cable people left to mount a riot.
Never thought about it before, but why didn't they just turn off
broadcast completely? Can't be feasible to run a transmitter if there
are only a few hundred of us left and we're too cheap to buy anything
advertised.
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