Log-Periodic Antenna Design

You don't have to if you know where to dumpster-dive.

I hate self-righteous peopoe almost as much as I hate rap.

Thanks, Rich

Google search for HDTV converter leads to sites with price comparisons.

My coupons are due any day and I was price shopping.

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Jim Pennino

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Charlie E. wrote:

Between having your packages delivered up the other block and not getting reception, I question the wisdom of choosing that address. I hope your wife likes the physical plant.

Frequency re-allocations were mentioned up the thread in news: snipped-for-privacy@radagast.org

I'm surprized no one has mentioned

Here's what you can expect to get in one part of Whittier with a 20' mast:

(The results are a graphical representation of the data so it's not searchable with a text search utility.) 8-(

Here's the version that isn't scrunched into the middle of the screen: (Right-click; Show only this frame)

(Your exact zip code and elevation may give different results.)

The lowest commercial channel you will get is the faith-healer/preachy-movie channel reallocated from 40 to 23.

The *all will move below 52* statement in Platt's wasn't accurate. While KDOC56 will move to 32, KLCS58 will move to 41, and KOCE50 will move to 48,

**KCOP13 will move to 66 and KCET28 will move to 59**.

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Careful. The channels you mention as "will move" are already operating digital on the "will move to" channels. Some will stay where they are.

At Transition, the four LA stations on analog VHF-HI channels, 7, 9, 11 and

13, will secure their digital UHF transmitters and initiate digital transmissions on their historic (analog) channels.

After Transition, no so-called "regular TV" will be on channels 52 and above. Other services have won bids for those channels. Qualcomm has channel 55 for MediFLO mobile TV, etc.

Pls see

and scroll downpage past New York to Los Angeles (they're in market-size order). See the fourth, fifth and sixth columns for each station's FCC assignments: analog, interim digital and final digital. It's all there.

I hope this helps.

Well, to be honest, except for the CW network, we have always been on either cable or satellite. Unfortunately, DirectTV seems to be having problems with ALL the local channels on their uplinks... :-(

Charlie

That's not what conditional access means.

Each TVBD will be addressable and can be shut off when it consults the database. The top 13 cities thing is probably an oversight, but it's in the proposed law.

The proposed power for a portable device is 100 mW, except on a first-adjacent to a DTV station, which is 40 mW. This makes no sense because the 2nd adjacent channel is more likely to interfere.

Thanks for the information, Dave.

The database is internal to the TVBD and indexed by a built-in GPS receiver telling the TVBD where it is?

---Joel

The database will be on the internet. How the device will connect to the internet is not stated in the ruling, but if the device cannot transmit until it has consulted the database it won't be by talking to another TVBD.

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Conditional access has been done with analog -- but not well. I sucessfully defeated analog scrambling with two different home-brew devices but I never tried digital. Too hard.

It's much easier to hard-code C/A with digital.

Just my two cents.

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I suspect Rich is Virginia Newbon, she's using at least 40 male aliases in most newsgroups existant. Literally, that's hundreds if not a thousand.

TV has never been 'free'. you pay for it with every product you purchase that is advertised on tv. and of course you pay for it in taxes, and also in product purchases from sponsors, for 'public' tv channels. tanstaafl!

My squawk with "pay" TV is that you pay to get it, and then have to additionally watch commercials.

The wife and I, with being able, for example, to go out to Fox tvs' webpage and view prisonbreak, have, pretty much, given up watching tv ... we have been talking about discontinuing cable and dumping satellite ... the loud commercials and VERY STUPID commercials have pushed it to the point where it is no longer worth it ... we end our services the end of this month.

Regards, JS

I have exactly the same argument against "pay" TV. So what are we paying for?

I was once spending $140 a month for digital cable and net service. I dropped all the cable tv services, bumped the net service up to the 25/7 service and now watch via hulu.com, surfthechannel.com, youtube, and network TV sites.

Cable television is pretty much dead now.

Ya but they're putting commercials on the web episodes too! You cant get away from whatever they want to jam into the stream!

I still have my VCR. I don't mind FFwd every few minutes. After all, if you have seen the commercial once, you have been "informed". I caught a couple of episodes of Sarah Connor Chronicles on the web and quality was pretty good but they played the same ad over and over until I found myself singing to it, so that I had to smack myself in the head with the phonebook to reboot myself.

Yes, there is much I have experienced there ...

We have dishtv, you can record shows/movies to the DVRs' recorder and then click a few times to go through 3-5-7-or more minutes of commercials ...

Still, just the "feel" and the "stress" of all this leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth; when I mentioned that to the wife, she carried on for a good fifteen minutes+ on her own "emotional distress."

This is just all about what a person is able to accept, or not, some might not even notice any "discomfort."

AT&T is the first "BIG one we took on", we dropped them and went to Vonage--that was unacceptable at $29.?? a month, for the service we received--in short, and my humble opinion, they are a ripoff. We now use magicjack

as $20 bucks for the little USB dongle, then $20 bucks a year, thereafter, to call all the US and Canada for free--we found our phone service!

Regards, JS