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Hi,

 

I rate my HDHR's sensitivity second only to my Fusion7 Dual which is logically off-line due to defective software. They get all stations wanted.

 

Adjust this "Scan-HDHR.BAT" file for your needs and attach it please.

 

EDIT: This is right for a W7 64 Bit system, Silicondust is providing a 64 bit version! Check where it is on your system.

 

Not right for W7 64 BIT perhaps. PM for help if you do not understand.

 

 

If you have problems with this, here is the link to the HDHR forum post:

 

http://www.silicondust.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2038#p10578

 

 

See my profile for my equipment list, I have one pre-amp and a eight way distribution amp fed by a CM4228HD. The first HDHR was a method of getting DTV downstairs as my previous plan had no chance. I discovered the other day that I could watch DTV almost a block away in the HOA clubhouse using my laptop.

 

The second HDHR was to replace the Fusion7 Dual which I finally gave up on using for captures, it just was NOT reliable.

 

Your TVFool http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29 along with your equipment list and distribution diagram would be helpful.

 

 

 

 

I was getting much better speeds before I updated the firmware on my NETGEAR WNDR3700 N600 Wireless Dual-Band Gigabit Router 50% is the best you can get IMHO and I was approaching that.

 

Wireless N was sort of folded into Wireless G increasing the speed of G. But I cannot enable that function in the router due to old 54 G type devices. I keep wanting to go back to the old firmware.

 

I am the only station using "N" near here but get some strange interference now, it was not present with the old firmware.

 

SHF Click for larger image

 

Edited by SFischer1 - 5/18/13 at 8:50pm

KCSM - Bandwidth speculators won

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=1768545

We need to call our representatives and put a stop to this.

Hi,

 

OK, who is your representative so we can call and stop you from posting messages like this.

　

 

 

With the 900 # gorilla on the same tower which sucks up all the pledge money, selling a station with an educational license has been shown to not be possible.

 

If the educational license could be converted to a commercial one, even then it would be hard to find any way to fund the station. With an educational license KCSM tried and failed. KMTP tried it for ~ 3 weeks and gave up.

 

For the students, this is the best outcome, depending on Congress and the FCC not doing stupid things with the DTV Crunch.

 

SHF

 

P.S. I dearly wish KCSM would stay around, anyone who could have saved the station has looked at it and said it will not work.

 

Accept it and move on.

　

　

　

　

　

I have to wonder if one station can be successfully auctioned? The objective is to clear 35 to 51 but the Bay Area still has 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44,45 & 47-51. I'll bet few if any of those are going away.

Chuck

Hi,

 

One thing that I have not heard about that may be a game changer are modifications to the "Cable must carry laws."

 

Putting education and commercial stations on then same transmitter, two HD streams per transmitter, creating more 12 - 20 stream stations like KAXT Channel 1 are just two possibilities.

 

There is so much money involved failure is not an option. The FCC has one chance before 2020, many things may change by then. I do not bet, but congress not finding a way to collect the money, they always do and need lots right now.

 

We should move this to :

 

The official final DTV Table Of Allotments-channel change thread - AVS Forum

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/newestpost/823166/the-official-final-dtv-table-of-allotments-channel-change-thread/60

 

AVS Official Topic - The FCC & Broadcast Spectrum

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1216722/avs-official-topic-the-fcc-broadcast-spectrum/2850#post_23320662

 

A professor has published a paper describing how to keep the remaining DTV stations and Wireless from interfering with each other.

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7022112024

 

This is OT here.

SHF

I wasn't talking about KCSM in particular but rather the bandwidth grab by the FCC and associated speculation it is creating. This is about having enough OTA content to present consumers with a viable alternative to cable monopolies. "Accept it and move on" is how things end up like this.

You must not have been paying attention when our "representatives", ie Congress, passed the law that set the process in motion. Why would they listen to you now when they didn't listen before?

Not entirely OT since it affects OTA everywhere.

I still have the same question as I've had since I first heard the rules for the auctions. How many broadcasters will participate? The tiny amount of feedback I've gotten so far says that except for financially non-viable stations like KCSM, no one has volunteered to participate. Should that situation remain unchanged into 2014 then there's not going to be much of a reverse auction. The first channel the FCC wants to clear is 51. In the Bay Area that is KDTV. I wonder what the chances are that KDTV will voluntarily go off the air or double up with someone else? I'll bet they're low.

I can see a situation where the only available spectrum is in rural areas like where I am that are underserved now and have plenty of spectrum already. I can't imagine a wireless company wanting to pay big bucks for spectrum in my area when they already have unused spectrum.

Chuck

Hi,

 

As I said, the cable must carry law is the key and can be changed. Like Channel 1 is just fine for SD IMHO.

 

What is public-ally said matters little, the deck is stacked along with the laws of physics and the increasing tech changes. Congress is greedy!

 

There are many that will protest loudly with no effect.

 

Can we affect the outcome, yes. By not buying smart phones, but that will not happen. The future is about to be here. We must live with it

 

Did I expect this, no, I had an alternate idea how DTV OTA would end quickly (Decades), but advancements the public wants has changed the timeline.

 

In Europe one network has said they will be turning their transmit tors off, FOX threatened to do the same here.

 

80% was the Cable / Dish before the analog turnoff here, what is the number today, 95%?

 

SHF

heres another update to our local channel listings you might be interested in Larry

theres 60.4 showing up on my tivo. its showing KCSM logo for now, but the subchannel's ID is listed as "JazTEST" in the guide.

pure conjecture on my part but could it stand for al jazeera? they have the jazz radio station on 60.3, seems like that'd be repetitive.

Hi,

 

there are a flood of messages about streaming problems in the past.

 

https://twitter.com/KCSMTechIssues

 

One message said they are moving the FM studio, the FM station is not part of the sale. No post where the bid being accepted must appear.

 

It is a Video stream, perhaps as an replacement for Jazz-TV from the new studio.

 

 

 

KCSM.zip 1k .zip file

 

 

 

 

And no FCC application, Well I do not know how to look for them. http://www.rabbitears.info/tvq.php

 

al Jazeera, unlikely, the purchase appears to be shut the station down.

 

SHF