mike wrote:
> 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.
>
That's what I said all along. Not really riots but the phones at
congress representatives will probably ring like crazy and with mighty
miffed callers. I am shocked how many neighbors in this area of
typically well educated people are blissfully unaware of what's going to
happen. Seriously, one engineer (!) looked me in the eyes "Converter
box? What converter box?"
> 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.
>
Some day it'll probably all end up as Internet streams anyhow. Most
people have a reliable web connection but their OTA television
connection will become a whole lot less reliable in February 2009.
We had that yesterday. Again. Wanted to watch the news, clear digital
picture but with the usual "painted faces". Then the smoke from the
wildfires ****fted a bit and, poof, gone. Switched back to analog to see
the news.
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