Re: How will the US local area stations commerate the end of System-M?

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Sal M. Onella <salmonella@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

| "Bruce Tomlin" <bruce#fanboy.net@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
| news:bruce#fanboy.net-320525.20260701052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> I'm wondering if this is a coincidence, or if an adjacent analog
channel
|> (even from the same antenna farm) really does make an ATSC station hard
|> to tune in.
|>
|> If this is true, then the shut-off can't come any too soon for me.
| 
| KFMB is analog Ch 8 from Mount Soledad in San Diego.  KFMB-DT is Ch 7
from
| the same place.  No problems -- BUT -- I am receiving them with a UHF
| antenna.  If I were to hook my box to a VHF antenna, the stronger signal
| might show up a problem.  I'll try it and see what happens.
| 
| I normally don't watch any VHF channels since all the locals are on
cable
| anyway.  My real use for digital OTA is for LA stations that the local
| cableco doesn't im****t.  They're all UHF.

But be aware that KABC-DT, KCAL-DT, KTTV-DT, and KCOP-DT will all be going
back to their VHF allocations (7, 9, 11, 13) post-transition.  And you are
probably going to have problems with KFLA-LD on channel 8.

http://www.rabbitears.info/dtr.php

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