Montgomery, AL - HDTV - Page 214

Thanks for the update 4bama.. WNCF-DT is at full power of 720kw vs WAKA's 1 MW. The antenna is also sidemounted; and below the WAKA Antenna. If you don't mind, PM us a closer location than what you have posted so we can log it. You are a bit outside of our projected coverage area too. FWIW..everyone was notified by multiple methods well in advance so there is no excuse anyone would have not known about the WNCF move, not to mention one can look at the FCC filings for the actual dates...Be advised that the Radar on 8-3 will end in January when we replace it with MeTv., AFTER we get a LOT of other work done.

JFYI, as is normal for my reception area, after sundown the power level increases for all my OTA channels and for WNCF-32 it increased to 92%...

jtrippe,
If you can get 6 meg DSL service on Redland I will eat my hat. I don't live far from the Dalreda CO and I can only get the 3 meg service!

My Knology is 50meg down and 5meg up

I use Knology for Internet and Phone. Directv for HD.

That sounds like a great setup then. The only reason I won't keep Brighthouse 20 meg service is the bundled savings I'll be getting with DirecTV and AT&T

I am not as smart as you guys but 32 WNCF picture is not as good as it was. I don't understand tech talk but do know what looks good in HD and what does not. ABC football games are awful. I am on Brighthouse and have always enjoyed the pq of this station. dont know if problem is at Brighthouse or 32. Even with OTA PQ same? Sorry if I dont make it clear what I am trying to say.

Very good picture with OTA 32...looking at it on my 55" Sanyo HDTV the PQ is great with the ABC football games..

No cable here, but 32 OTA looks as good or better than ABC-40 from B'ham on Dish Network...

Dave and I are still tweaking the encoder settings and software..and will do a bit more tomorrow afternoon..While I can do it from here remotely in my recliner..it's not something we prefer to do unless absolutely necessary..

Sarasdad..Mark determined that BH was picking up SD WNCF via WBMM on Saturday....

Thank you my friend. I knew something was wrong. Do you think this is for long?

No, it should have already been corrected, if not....then please let us know pronto!

Thanks again

Noticed on Castle last night, that the color seemed a little weak but at the same time the commercials looked fine. The episode before, the color was overdone.

This is on OTA.

How does this work? Does the actual show get processed differently than say commercials????

Not at the local level...

Following up on your Tivo too Jim.

A long time ago, I read that WSFA was going to give APT / WAIQ big bucks to trade channels with them because WSFA wanted to remain the lowest numbered channel in town (obviously this was before the idea of virtual channels had been conceived). How did this ever turn out?

Assuming the idea would have been to swap Dozier ch. 2 for Montgomery ch. 12, I think spacing to WSB in Atlanta would have been a problem in the analog era. I'm not sure Dozier could have been moved close enough to Montgomery to provide a good signal If Dozier had been a sufficient signal in Montgomery, there would have been no need for the APT station on 26. Also, until cable took over WSFA had a lot of viewership out of market in Auburn, Columbus, and Dothan.

Well, in the old days, given the same transmitter power allowance, the lower the transmit frequency the farther the signal would travel...Channel 2 would reach more viewers than channel 13, given each had the same transmit power and from the same tower.

That is still true today, but as you noted, there's no relationship between the transmit frequency and a stations ID (PSIP)...

The Montgomery stations all transmit on the same frequency as their station ID number except:

WAKA-8 transmits on UHF-42

WAIQ-26 transmits on UHF-27

WNCF-32 transmits on UHF-31

So WSFA-12, transmitting on VHF-12 has the lowest transmit frequency and in theory can reach farther than any of the stations transmitting on UHF frequencies..That shows up in my signal strength meter here...even when we're having severe weather conditions, WSFA will boom in here better than any of the other stations..


New subject: I just noticed that WIYC-48, transmitting on UHF-48, carries national weather conditions but is Alabama and southeast when they switch to local weather conditions...I'd never stored that channel before, but just for fun I scanned it and stored it....information looks similar to The Weather Channel (TWC) carried on most cable and satellite providers except the crawler and local weather conditions are all Alabama towns/cities.....

Does anyone know where this transmitter (48) is located and who "owns" this station??

http://www.rabbitears.info/search.php?request=zip_search&zipcode=36119&miles=60&address=&lat=&lon=&dbtype=dBm&height=

Upgraded to the newer standard Docsis 3.0 Modem.

This is at Lunch time.

It did happen. WSFA was originally digital 57 and WAIQ was digital 14. WSFA got it shuffled so that they were on 14 and WAIQ was (and is today) on 27.

- Trip

Fyi..New software and a few tweaks to the WNCF and WBMM encoders today...

I watched Castle on Brighthouse and noticed my audio was not DD 5-1 but just Pro logic. Maybe a glitch at my end or cable

Thank so much for the updates

All these changes in locations is there a site with the where to point antennas?
Edited by sarasdad - 10/4/12 at 2:44am

saradad,

Here's one that I've used in the past. http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29 Looks like 8 and 32 are using their RF frequency on the map. 12 and 20 and represented as 12 and 20.

If that doesn't work for you, I've got a signal meter we can use.....but you're climbing the tower.

www.Antennapoint.com Pointing aid provided by Antennas Direct
www.antennaweb.org CEA website for consumers
www.TVfool.com Independent resource
http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/maps/ Official FCC web tool

Each of the four has its advantages and disadvantages. Overall, TVFool is preferred by those who have learned to use its more complete and complex features.

HAHAH no more towers for me.Thanks Jim good to hear from you!

I am watching abc 32 on brighthouse (football) and it is not HD not even good SD:mad:

I've got BH and an antenna. The feed on the ABC 32 BH channel is horrible as you say. The antenna feed looks pretty good. It must be an issue with BH.