Lafayette, LA / Beaumont, TX / Lake Charles, LA - HDTV - Page 265

Call the government movement the "turtle crawl"

I am truly sorry for the loss of your friend Max. May the memories of him live long and comfort you and bring a smile to you at times. I still mourn the loss of Mama and Pattie Cat. I inherited Mama when I bought my house (not the first time that has happened) and Pattie Cat came from the plant where I know she would have perished in a bad way out there.

It is hard to lose a friend, but I know you gave him a good life, and he loved you for it. I am sorry it had to be...

So sorry to hear, may he R.I.P.

3AB got a letter from the FCC dated August 23, 2010 stating that their proposed 15 KW station on channel 34 to be located on the KFDM tower did not comply with FCC rules due to interference with NEW proposed MIK station on channel 34 to be located on the KITU tower.

So, 3AB amended their application, still to be located on the KFDM tower, but now they are proposing a channel 34 signal with a reduced ERP of 30 Watts from 200 meters above ground. You read that correctly... .03 KW. What's the point??? Why bother? 30 watts for a UHF channel??? Would the signal even reach the ground? Geez. And this is still with a viable app on file from MIK (they were first in the first come/first served open filing window) for channel 34 with an ERP of 3 KW.

It just gets curiouser and curiouser...

Dallas based London Broadcasting completed the purchase of KIII-TV, the ABC affiliate in Corpus Christi, from McKinnon Broadcasting. Changes planned include more focus on the station's high-definition station and aggressively pursuing program for its two other digital stations.

The FCC finally got around to dismissing both the channel 30 application that MIK filed for channel 30 in Port Arthur (they forgot to notice that KVHP was already on channel 30) and their app for channel 22 in Beaumont (oh gee, there's already a station on that channel also...). And both of those are gone from the database.

They have not got around to dismissing (yet) the applications for both Port Arthur and Beaumont that MIK filed for channel 25. But they will...

FYI- KAJN Family vision finally went digital just a few weeks ago.Of course they were having problems at first and were rebroadcasting 33 from baton rouge at times.Seems to be 100% family vision now.
This is a Lafayette low power station with tower in Youngsville.They said they were not going digitial,but I guess they were missing a small audiance.Glad they did.
I would only image that their digital signal is also low power.

They are a low power digital station, but their signal is as powerful as a low power can be (under normal circumstances).

They are broadcasting with an ERP of 15 KW on RF channel 40 from 155 meters above ground. The signal covers past Crowley to the east, past Sunset to the north, and past Jeanerette to the southeast, along with a lot of alligator TV households everywhere else...

Tropo is up this week. Get your DX ears on.

-ML

I've got mine on! My DX ears are pink. What color are yours?

You should know. You've seen the pictures.

-ML

Touche'

Is there ANY way to get around the problem in DISH's 722 OTA tuner where it wont receive if the sat signal goes away? Trying to watch the football game since the rain was causing signal lock and it eventually took away OTA reception!! I hate that! Havent figured out a way around it.....

If you hit menu and then guide you can get into the guide and hit the ota channel of your choice. IF you wait to long after the rain starts , you won't be able to do this. It worked this way on my 722k and on my 922.

I noticed over the weekend that MyTX is still IDing as KUIL-LP and not KUIL-LD.

Just an observation...

I've also noticed that KAOB 27.2 has audio but no video for the last week or so. Does anybody know who to contact to let them know?

-ML

Thanks for the idea...I have tried going to Point Dish and then backing out which gives me the normal channel display for a sec or so,,,,during which I can change it but it doesnt always work....I'll keep the Guide in mind! NOW if DISH would fix he audio issue (SD vs HD)...I have to crank up the audio to 40-50 on the TV for HD..,..but hit a SD channel and its SCREAMING...until I can turn it down to 25 or so..OUCH!

Its amazing that KUIL 43 is even on! (ok ok....I am going a little over with that)...they WERE off the air Sunday when lightning was zapping everywhere (my CPA's office got hit...blew up his office phone system and computer network! Gotta order him a new system Tuesday)...and I am not sure when they came back on...AFAIK, they were still off Sunday night..The FCC really wont care about LD vs LP..there are more important things on their plate (just like corporate America...do more with less)
BTW did anyone else hear the BOOM Sunday evening from Motiva???

ML, I have Dowen's e-mail adress and I will check out 27 this evening when I get home to see if there is still a problem. I e'd him the other day about it and got an e back yesterday stating that all was well. If this is no the case, I will certainly let him know...

I checked KAOB this afternoon and found that all was well. Audio and video on all four channels.

IF you have the 722k or the 922 ,you can enable volume leveling which reduces the differences between hd and sd channels. IF you don't have one of these receivers ,you can change all audio to pcm instead of dolby digital /pcm and you will get level pcm sound.

Mine is just a 722DVR.....It is set already to PCM....and still BIG difference!

Sorry that is the way it is for hd stations vs sd stations. HD is lower than sd. NO fix unless you use the volume leveling feature and I don't think the 722/622 has it yet.

It is the same way on TWC cable boxes...

I came across this video of a guy climbing a broadcast tower. You would have to give up watching OTA if you were waiting on me to do this!

http://gizmodo.com/5638576/helmet-ca...roadcast-tower

Sorry this video disappeared before you got to see it.

The video was originally posted on a relatively obscure trade blog. Someone saw it and routed it to You Tube. It was going viral with over 100,000 hits in 2 days. There was concern that those not in the industry would not understand it. That misunderstanding could cause more trouble than it was worth so they pulled it.

http://www.theonlineengineer.org/v20/Videos/swth.html WAS the web site.....the video is copyrighted so hence its been removed from several sites (including youtube)...
EDIT: Here is the BLOG that explains why it was removed.....(AND it showed the guy doing freehand climbing without 2 point hookon as REQUIRED by OSHA....so I can see WHY it got pulled!!)
http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/

Ive been up to 1700ft on several 2000ft towers and 800-1200 feet on 1500 footers....(but I cheated...I rode the elevator! I dont climb above 500ft but then I havent climbed that high in 15+ years) I have a shot from the original "tall" tower in SW Houston, the old 1400ft "DeWalt" tower made by Dresser-Ideco...recently dismantled after serving for over 45 years..it was one of 9 built like it across the US (only one remains..in DFW..but it has been shortened to 1100ft after a Navy jet ran up one of the guy wires in the 80s and almost caused a disaster as it slammed into the top of the towerl yes the jet, a F4 Phantom. lost a wing and the pilot ejected before the plane crashed north of the tower farm on Beltline Rd)..They had a 75 foot wide candelabra at he 1400ft top with 2, 11 and 39 on the ends! Here is a pic of the top of the stick from ground level....I need to scan in the pic I took from the top...walked to the edge and leaned over and took a snapshot...there is a single pixel of blue next to the tower base...it was my 89 S10 Blazer !!!

BTW, almost forgot...on the Houston stick, IF you look at the pic closely, there is a 2 story building in the center (made out of THICK sheet metal; how it survived through storms amazed me!)!!! It housed a lot of 2way gear..commercial and some ham radio repeaters..including one of the 1st ham repeaters in the US back in the 60 on 146.88 (later when ham repeaters had to have a distinctive callsign--now they just use a normal call of the owner or club who runs it-- the repeater got the first repeater call issued in the 5th call district, WR5AAA.....the code IDer was a code wheel in the 60s and 70s...it spun and made/broke the connection to the tone oscillator that made the tone for the Morse code (CW) id, sending the callsign once every ten minutes...later replaced by solid state/diode programmable type....but the A A A was didah didah didah (using di instead of DIT or DOT...in reality thats how it sounds, not dit/dot unless it is the last character!)....it sounded sooo neat at 20 words per minute Morse code...the 146,88 and its later UHF sister repeater on 444.6 output had mobile range to Winnie!!! They were removed from the tower in the early 2000s...I was up on the tower doing work on both systems in 1992...have pics I need to scan in..

Yep, size (of the tower in height) DOES matter

In actual practice, there is NO difference in audio levels of HD vs SD...100% mod is 100% mod....(if it walks, looks and quacks like a duck......) Going from a SD channel to a HD channel should result ONLY in change of the video..but not the audio (unless of course you have 5.1 DD on the HD and only 2 channel stereo on the SD...but again, the audio LEVEL should remain the same on 2ch speakers)...
No, the 722DVR doesnt have any leveling feature (yet...wonder if DISH is planning on it)....I do have some audio compressor/processors but they wont interface with the HMDI cable!!
I did have an Orban Optimod 8200 once in line with the analog audio off the old TV and feeding the stereo system...Talk about sweet and no audio changes!!

Somebody reposted it to YouTube...so get a look before it gets removed again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXuzrIN_x2M

YouTube's pulled it again, but you can find it here..the actual climb starts about 50 seconds into the video, but the info in the beginning sets it up..Yikes !!!!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f2d_1284588370

Ken