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Yes, I saw problems begin to appear late last night on WABC-DT and WNYW-DT. On WNWY-DT I also had only a blip of a signal and WABC-DT was really strange -- sometimes a strong, solid signal but pixelization; other times the signal dropped out. I'll be interested to hear whether these problems persist throughout the day, today.

can anyone check signal? i got abc, fox, wb out....no signal or in the low 10....only cbs got 50% ..
I just want to make sure before i head to the rooftop and check my antenna direction

Something going on. All I get is CBS and a bunch of PA stations... Hopefully its just somoene mucking around with transmitters or something....

I actually lost CBS for a short time and I had to rotate the antenna about 15-20 degrees from the normal position I use. Then the signal suddenly shot back to around 88 when I checked around 10:30 or 11 PM. Around 9:30 or so I completely lost FOX no matter where I seemed to rotate the antenna. I also had trouble with WTNH, but the signal was back up this morning....still not completely strong. Could the Winegard preamp unit on the antenna mast be malfunctioning or could all this be due to atmospheric ducting???

It looks like we are all having problems. Hopefully its nothing permant, keeping my fingers crossed for NBC tonight (not that there is any hd on it tonight, exept leno)...

Judging by the number of related posts, it must be something in the atmosphere. Either that, or at least one of the stations mentioned in these posts is doing some work that's interfering with the others.

There's some strange stuff going down in the air since last night. The Philly stations were also hard to "lock" in on, even though the signal strength was quite good. for KYW (CBS) I was getting almost 100% signal, but at times the picture was black and my STB said No Signal. WB, ABC also dropped to almost nothing. The only good signals I was picking up last night was UPN, FOX, and PSB out of Philly. So since the NYC stations were exhibiting the same atmospheric disturbances, there must be some common thing going on. Anyone hear of more sun storms coming our way over the past week?

Has anyone considered the possibility of aliens from outer space?

Here's a link to what I experienced last night via OTA. I posted it in the Central NJ forum:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...04#post2962904

Reading a few above and below this post, you can see there were QUITE a few odd things going on "in the air" last night. But, like the rest of you, I'm waiting anxiously with baited breath for a certain Peacock to flip his switch tonight.....

Sounds like tropo again, last night was really bizarre I lost most of my Philly stations and started picking up stations from Massachusetts, Kingston, N.Y and the New York City digital stations were up down over and under with off the scale signal strengths when they were receivable.

Don't you mean flip its TAIL???

Well its supossed to get cloudy later today and rain this evening. Hopefully that will let things return to normal...Guess this what happens when you get some nice weather out of nowhere....

It IS a male peacock isn't it?

Just checked the tropo forecast folks looks like we could be in for another wild ride tonight.

http://www.globalserve.net/~hepburnw/tropo.html

Interesting website. Did you see in the guys background that he once got a TV station from Florida all the way up in Canada.....

This may sound like a dumb question, but which is the better reception days when it is the higher color numbers or the extreme pink ? In other words which is a better reception day 1 or 9+ ?

Thanks,

Scott

Not a stupid quiestion at all; the brighter the colors the more signal deflection occurs pink 9+ being the most extream.

So I guess this is the same thing as "catching skip" (from my cb/ham radio days) CQ CQ CQ DX, WCBS New York, QRT and standing by...

I'm going with the aliens also, but im not sure they are from outer space. the could be lurking right here

F.U.

Chris

Yes that's correct. On another note I just heard that were transmitter and exciter problems at ESB which explains the drop outs and loss of signal over the weekend.

There is still some work to be done to remedy this so we may notice some of the same issues for the duration.

There appears to be a two fold situation here when WCBS-DT, WNYW-DT lowers or all together takes down their digital transmitters to fix these problems combined with the tropo some of us are able to receive other stations at incredible distances even digital stations.

Which may explain some of the other posts on this thread and other threads where people are stating that the long distance signals appears to come and go??

woohoo I am still getting 11-1 nbc from baltimore
my location: brentwood, ny

Since when have you begun receiving this? thanks

F.U.

I'm picking up WNBC-DT channel 4-1 on my LST-3100A! Can't wait to see Jay in HD!

Tony

How does it look? Damm, I am only getting 40% signal, not enough for it to tune in. I get 100% for ABC, CBS & FOX, I hope they are still tweaking it before tonight.....

The pic looks as good as the other ota ch upconverted stuff. They are not b'casting 5.1. Are there any hd shows on tonights line-up. I dont think titan tv reflects WNBC-DT in n.y. I have heard alot about jay leno's pic quality, looking forward to that. thanks

F.U.

getting it here in the bronx....(is there a prize for the first guy in bronx to receiver nbc???)....signal strength is 67%....audio is not 5.1....looking forward to tonight leno

Yes, It's NBC in HD.

Now for WOR-TV to get with the program. one day this thread will be a relic. we are the pioneers of HD

F.U.

We are so close, just imagine scrolling thru ch on any given night and HD prg after HD

OOPS..what I was gonna say all for FREE. The way tv should be.