Comments on: February 17th or June 12th, 2009 - Are You Ready for HDTV? http://susqconews.com/?p=150 Susquehanna County - The Truth Shall Set You Free Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:50:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Concerned Taxpayer http://susqconews.com/?p=150&cpage=1#comment-585 Concerned Taxpayer Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:31:24 +0000 http://susqconews.com/?p=150#comment-585 If you go to tvfool.com you can find out how good the reception will be in your area. It will let you put in your map coordinates and tell you how good (or if you will have) reception. Don't know your coordinates? GoogleEarth will get you know. That link is earth.google.com - its free and it offers interesting views of our area. According to the local tv stations, Analog broadcasting ended at 12:30 on 16, and 12 noon on 22 & 28. These local stations probably figured it is a whole lot cheaper to run one transmitter rather than two. Anyway, tvfool.com will give you a great deal of information, if you are interested. If you go to tvfool.com you can find out how good the reception will be in your area. It will let you put in your map coordinates and tell you how good (or if you will have) reception. Don’t know your coordinates? GoogleEarth will get you know. That link is earth.google.com - its free and it offers interesting views of our area.

According to the local tv stations, Analog broadcasting ended at 12:30 on 16, and 12 noon on 22 & 28. These local stations probably figured it is a whole lot cheaper to run one transmitter rather than two.

Anyway, tvfool.com will give you a great deal of information, if you are interested.

]]> By: Thompson http://susqconews.com/?p=150&cpage=1#comment-582 Thompson Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:42:57 +0000 http://susqconews.com/?p=150#comment-582 For those watching Channel 22 and Channel 28. The analog stations broadcast on channels 22 and 28 (big surprise), both of which are on UHF frequencies. You use a set top loop or UHF antenna which has relatively short elements. The digital broadcasts for those two station are on channel 11 (for channel 28) and channel 13 (for channel 22), both are in the VHF band. VHF antennas have long "rabbit ears" or long elements. http://pahomepage.com/dtvanswers/ click "local Info" Thus, I have been watching all the Scranton stations with a UHF outdoor antenna, but must get a combination VHF/UHF antenna to get WBRE. WYOU is strong enough that my current UHF antenna get it well enough. You can buy outdoor antennae from Radio Shack and Lowes. This web site can be helpful in explaining the details and helping you aim your outdoor antenna: http://antennaweb.org/ The "conversion box" is also required! But it may not be sufficient. For those watching Channel 22 and Channel 28. The analog stations broadcast on channels 22 and 28 (big surprise), both of which are on UHF frequencies. You use a set top loop or UHF antenna which has relatively short elements. The digital broadcasts for those two station are on channel 11 (for channel 28) and channel 13 (for channel 22), both are in the VHF band. VHF antennas have long “rabbit ears” or long elements.

http://pahomepage.com/dtvanswers/

click “local Info”

Thus, I have been watching all the Scranton stations with a UHF outdoor antenna, but must get a combination VHF/UHF antenna to get WBRE. WYOU is strong enough that my current UHF antenna get it well enough.

You can buy outdoor antennae from Radio Shack and Lowes. This web site can be helpful in explaining the details and helping you aim your outdoor antenna:

http://antennaweb.org/

The “conversion box” is also required! But it may not be sufficient.

]]> By: suscoresident http://susqconews.com/?p=150&cpage=1#comment-577 suscoresident Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:46:47 +0000 http://susqconews.com/?p=150#comment-577 This topic has drawn my interest as to the debate on when to pull the trigger on the transfer and begin the new transmissions.I could not imagine anyone not knowing this was going to occur and when. It seemed that every other ad on TV was telling you of the impending action and it felt like they lasted for at least the entire last year.If the date kept being extended for the transfer, how many years would it take to get most of the procrastinators to finally do what they were asked initially? This topic has drawn my interest as to the debate on when to pull the trigger on the transfer and begin the new transmissions.I could not imagine anyone not knowing this was going to occur and when. It seemed that every other ad on TV was telling you of the impending action and it felt like they lasted for at least the entire last year.If the date kept being extended for the transfer, how many years would it take to get most of the procrastinators to finally do what they were asked initially?

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