Digital Switch Creating Broadcast Coverage Gaps > We lost channels too.

We lost channels too.

Digital is dead as a bag of hammers here. They'll fix it when advertisers realize they're not reaching as many households and demand lower prices for airtime. Oh well, there isn't much on television anyway.

reply to Lurch77
Well, when the twin towers went down, all tv stations in the
new york area went offline. CBS still had a backup transmitter
at the Empire State building, WABC and WNBC used studios in
New Jersey provided backup facilities.

I have not yet played with the tv card in my PC but it is
my understanding it can pick up digital tv.

As a ham operator, I'd be curious as to what I'd be able to
pick up on an analog tuner hooked to a large antenna once
the analog stations are gone.

I was thinking the other day, how far out in space the very
first radio signal must be right now if power were no problem.

Let's see, 186,000 miles per second.....
For argument's sake let's use this:

Earliest one I can find is December 24, 1906, made by Reginald Fessenden of Brant Rock, Massachusetts.

Using this date, and calculating to December 24, 2008
there would be 3,218,918,400 seconds in that time span.

I used midnight as the time for these calculations.

598,718,822,400,000 miles.

Anyone got an OTA antenna to receive Star Trek from way
out there?

I just think that a lot of people regardless of where they
are are going to have trouble receiving television no
matter how many times people are told the switch is coming.

I know that even though I have cable, one of my elderly
neighbors doesn't, so i ordered a DTV box and will install
it for them.

--Deeply Shrouded & Quiet
--Central Control! D-Dial #49

PS: Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati yourself....
Got yer duct tape?