Louisville, KY - HDTV - Page 2

Lay you odds , Master Control forgot to turn the Transmitter on.......What a bummer.......

Great...rush home from dinner with the wife, promising a great HD movie...no frigging signal!

Come on guys....here I am talking up WHAS and you fail to deliver...

This makes everyone look bad!

Hey Jerry,

WKPC DT-17 is floating in tonight with signal in the 70-80 range on the DTC-100.No sign of WHAS though.

Is this Alleutian(sp?) special supposed to be HD.It looks a little soft.They are also running 3 Subs along with it.I always thought that 2 Subs were the limit while running an HD at full resolution.Am I thinking right,here?

Also,the stack's working great.In order to null out that damm LP in Salem I have to manually punch in the azimuth heading one deg at a time on the 9521 rotor,instead of using one 2deg click on the remote.One deg either way,I lose 20 points on the E/B meter!

WHAS is starting to become a joke! HDTV my a$$. Didn't they pay their electric bill? LOL! I think if you guys want network HDTV you need to invest in ExpressVu. Thank goodness for WKPC or we would not have any HDTV in this one horse town.

Jerry,

Thanks for the heads-up on DT-55.A solid 88.Do you know if they are still at 1Kw? If they are,it's a good testimonial on the strength of a good digital transmission.

Just for kicks,I switched over to the RS U-120R on the 25ft mast.It'll lock up,but readings are 32..28..zip-nothing.

Jerry,

Yea, things are pretty "normal" here tonite also,Maybe a little enhancement to the south and east.Did pick up KET DT-24 and DT-44.

It'd be fun to pop my stack off the tower and bring it down,set it on your tripod,just to see what difference it might make on the Cincy stations.

Well, it looked like Dinosaur was being broadcast tonight in HD. I did not like that it wasn't OAR and it seemed a bit soft but I'll take it! I was going to time-shift this program but my daughter decided to play with my keyboard (while I wasn't around) and stopped the HiPix so I got half a movie. I am starting to feel jinxed. Anyway, props to WHAS for being on and flippin' the switch

Also, anyone else think that the network HD feeds are darker than the SD feeds? The commercials seem a lot, lot brighter - I noticed this on Alias before too but I did not notice this on WHAS's HD tests. Anyone else? If I flip to ExpressVu it looks fine but through my HiPix it definitely is darker - Thunder looked great and was not dark (except when it was supposed to be). Fortunately, I can adjust this but I was wondering if anyone else noticed this.

I can't complain about that picture. It looked really good. The sound still seemed to low or something. Does it seem low to you all too?

FYI, I left the PBS Receiver on the HD feed just in case it was HD instead of SD. We are always transmitting the channel map for 4 services but if its in HD only one service will be active. The reason for the map never changing is due to the different receiver reactions when a new map is transmitted.

Welcome to the world of no receiver standards...

William

Kudos to WHAS last night for finally getting NYPD blue broadcast in HD with descent PQ and sound!

I'm still having problems getting WHAS DT. I think I've got my antenna (ChannelMaster 4221) pointing just about due west and at about roof level (from Prospect). I'm getting KET fine (15-1 through 15-4), but no sign of 55 (or 11-1?). I'm using a Zenith DTV1080 DSS tuner. I'm new to this, so I'm a little confused - should I be able to get a signal from WHAS even if they aren't broadcasting in HD at a particular moment? I've been trying from 8-10 tonight (when My Wife and Kids and Drew Carey are supposed to be broadcasting), and am getting nothing. But the antenna is giving me a very clear analog signal for WHAS, I'm getting the KET HD feed, and my signal meter on the DTV1080 is pretty high. So I would hope I could get WHAS DT...

Thanks in advance for an info.

bruggles, did you try 55-1? Do you show any signal strength? I had Drew Carey on at 9:00 and it looked great. If whas is broadcasting in HD you should be able to get it. They come on around 4:00 in believe. They have not done any multicasting so I've only seen 55-1. I think I am getting an 85 on my HiPix and about 92 (signal strength) on my DTC-100 both off an antenna in my attic. I live in Hikes Point. Hmmm, any Zenith owners here? On the DTC-100 you sometimes had to disable the off-air-guides or it will confuse the tuner - maybe you are having a similar problem?
Good luck.

Disable the guides
Could be a PSIP Problem
I think MichelZ hit it right

OK, hopefully you're on the right track...

Sorry, but I've got a couple of questions - what is PSIP, and how do I disable the guides on the DTV1080? I've looked through the Setup menu (and the others) and the manual, but don't see any mention of a way to do it? Am I looking for the right thing?

Thanks again.

PSIP is the system that tells the receiver how to reconstruct the picture.

i.e. this video goes with that audio......

There is a feature in the PSIP that allows channel Remapping.

i.e. broadcast channel 55 becomes virtual channel 11

With KET
Broadcast Channel 17 becomes virtual channels 15-2,3,4,....

Sometimes receivers can get confused when it comes to channel mapping.

Or the broadcaster may be doing something wrong

I am not familiar with the 1080 but basically you want to "Reboot" it and do a fresh channel search.

You might want to search the forums for information on your 1080?

I tried rebooting according to the last message in this thread...

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107447&highlight=dtv1080+reboot

No luck... I still get KET (15-1 through 15-4) fine, but nothing else... It is only 5:00 on Friday - do I need to try again another time?

I searched for any mention of turning off the guides or PSIP, and didn't find anything

Thanks again.

I just did a scan and my HiPix shows both 11.1 and 55.1 and has them as WHAS-DT. It used to only show 55.1, very strange but it works.

I tried manually adding 11 and 55 - 11 came up with analog WHAS (again clear as a bell) and nothing else, and 55 came up with nothing at all.

Is the WHAS transmitter running on 9 volt batteries? Is the DTV transmitter running at low power levels? If it is at low power, Why? Should I order 21 miles of RG6 to drop to the station? I really regret spending all this money on HDTV gear, I would have enjoyed a nice trip somewhere exotic. I have never seen such a waste of good technology.

keithfaber,

WHAS coming in good this evening at SS of 65-75 on the DTC-100.Haven't heard,but think they are still on temporary low power,1Kw.I think the only time they ran full power(1000Kw) was during "Thunder".

They might be doing that to save some money,plus the the fact that very few people are watching.Just guessing,of course.

70mi north of TX

whas gonna come on-air for this?