Montgomery, AL - HDTV - Page 157

Well, I got the little Roxio software package apparently working "OK" in backing up my jpegs to DVD+R. Man, that's *really* nice compared to using CDs!!!

I've got a redundant backup going with a desktop at the other end of the house...hooked up wireless and running Linux on it. Seems to work pretty good. Now with being able to do mass backups on DVDs I'll feel comfortable enough to delete the files on our main computer and make a *good* bit of room on the hard drive.

BTW, the talk of the Taiyo Yuden DVDs makes me wonder if I ought to ditch my Sonys, order a batch of the Taiyos, and redo the backup....are the Taiyos that much better? I probably won't be spinning my dvd's very much as I'll still have the images on an accessable hard drive.

Thanks everybody for their help.

Getting back on topic...I watched House last night and I'm pretty impressed with WCOV's HD.

Ed

Sonys are fine!

Good thing! Thanks for the clarification.

Ed

TYS have a proven record and a great percentage of successful copying.
House is great. I also watch 24 and TERMINATOR on fox. Great HD

What is the latest on waka tv 8 power? Is it still reduced?

Channel 55 is still at approximately 60% power, channel 42 is off the air. A crew arrived this morning to start re-configuring the channel 42 transmitter back to channel 55, so we should be able to increase the power on 55 soon.

Russ

Russ,

Don't know if its acceptable with the powers that be, but could you shoot some pictures and post them for us to see how this process takes place?

Thanks for the info. The reason I asked , a week or two back I was receiving ota without pre amp or moving antenna but now I have to do both with not much success.The good news I can get you on cable. Just curious. Keep up the good work.

Anyone see that show called Worlds toughest jobs where they changed an antenna on a 2000' tower? NOT ME! It makes my stomach flip just watching it.

Been up at 1800' when it was 35 degrees on the ground. NEVER AGAIN.

I was a paratrooper and I still hate heights.Good show though.

wcov hd on Brighthouse pixilating some on American idol. Not a lot though. Watchable

There's a little woodplank footbridge spanning Skippers Canyon on the south island of New Zealand...whitewater river below...up about 380'...I jumped off of it a few years ago...had a bungy cord tied to my feet, though...loved it...I seriously don't think that I'd enjoy the tower climbing, though!

Ok, that kept me on topic...now for off-topic. I ended up getting a WD 1TB "Element" external hard drive. I reformatted it to NTFS and it appears to be working good....copied 107gb from my primary drive this morning in about 2.5 hours. Freed up some needed space on the primary.

Needless to say, I've still got plenty of room on the external drive and I'm thinking of setting up a mirrored drive...worth the effort?...got any directions written in crayon for me? It sounds like some software is necessary...suggestions?

Thanks again for the help!!! I'm feeling better now to have all those images of the grandbaby backed up well...not to mention the breathing room on the computer now.

Ed

Sounds great. I would still back up on dvds. Lord help if hard drive goes bad.I use a program called Nero to do several things including making dvd or cd

HDCLONE is available in 4 flavors, free, basic, standard and professional. I used the free version and it worked great with my external USB Seagate. It first makes you a bootable CD (so you must have a CD burner), then it makes a mirror copy of your system drives to your external USB drive. The same CD can then be used later to restore your system should you install new system or replace the system C/D drive.

The free version will only do Drive-->Drive backup, not partition to partition, but it's free...just Google HDCLONE.

Looks like we are all gonna die again.
Rich is beside himself.

Earlier I think I saw a dark stain on the back of his britches...probably sat down in something.

Interesting...I switched over the wx channel and they had a basketball game going...no radar going.

So when is 12.4 going live?
All Rich, all the time!

snicker snicker

Hey britt.....talking to Joe on the phone right now. Whoops off topic!

Are y'all talking about Rich Thomas on WSFA?

Joe up in Wetumpka say he has no signal on 8.1 WAKA right now.

Might be the bad weather....OR his crappy antenna!

Yea my 8 WAKA is gone too.

Britt

Ok, so it may not be his antenna. Just got off the phone with him, said he was going to bed...too much tequila, I think.

Finally picked up all the stuff I needed to finish my 4-bay bowtie antenna. Hopefull after this storm, I'll get it up and do some testing with it. Looking to get WCOV and just maybe, with a little luck WAKA. If it doesn't get the job done then I will build a twin and make it like the 4228.

Cross your fingers and wish me luck.

WAKA 8.1 dead in Wetumpka/Jasmine Hills area too.

8.1 has been dead in MGM since yesterday. I have TIVO HD. I have ran a channel scan x 3, reset the TIVO, and still no signal. Other DT signals come in fine. Anyone else having a prob? Also, does this mean each time it rains, WAKA will be out for a couple of days? Thanks to anyone who can help.

I don't know what's going on with them, but it appears to be something new. They've been through plenty of rain previously so I don't think you've got to worry about this being an on going situation...of course rain fade could be an issue at times, but I don't think a complete shutdown of the signal will be the norm during rain.

Ed

Went on their Web Site and found nothing about outage. Has to be the most awful web site to navigate.

As many here have noticed, WAKA went off the air Friday evening. We won't know much until we can get a tower crew in to check it, but it seems to be a problem with the transmission line or antenna that we use for channel 55.

In the meantime, we brought channel 42 back up this morning, it's still low power, but it's the best we can do right now.

I'll try to keep everyone here posted as we learn more.

Thanks,
Russ

Thanks a lot for that info. Wish WAKA would post something on their site tho!

What Russ posted here wasn't good enough? It doesn't get any better.