[SBE] WAGA Analog Sign Off w/ First CE

[Cowboy]

On Friday 12 June 2009 05:03 pm, Dennis Krumblis wrote:


>  From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Vic

>  Jester

>  Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 2:21 PM

>  To: sbe member discussion mail list; sbe member discussion mail list

>  Subject: Re: [SBE] WAGA Analog Sign Off w/ First CE

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>  Right - and then they should put an Indian Head with a 1kHz Tone on the

>  analog for a few days...


 Akron, Ohio.....

 Had a small gig in the morning, so I didn't get to see it, but it appears the
 shutdowns happened randomly through the day. Some were on analog
 all day, most terminated sometime in the morning.

 WKYC however, is still running analog, a loop about how to hook up various
 converter boxes. I'm a tad disappointed in this, in that I want to use Ch 3 
 for some internal distribution within my home, and the analog 3 is still 
 interfering with that project. It's the ONLY analog in the market now.

 I note that the WKYC "main" channel was absent all of last evening, only
 the secondary could be found.
 Some stations are now identifying as channel 74 or channel 72, when they
 were 8 or something else familiar, and there is no 74 or 72, so this is
 a tad confusing to me. How will the non-tech viewer react to this ?

 Apparently, today ( probably part of yesterday ) is the very first appearance
 of Ch's 23 and 25 in digital at all. Both are running 3 or 4 secondaries as well.

 From what I can see, this could have been handled better in this market.
 As it is, I'll wait 'till Ch3 analog finally goes off before believing the
 "transition" is actually done.

 Fortunately, I'm a project engineer ( and currently available )
 and not in programming.

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