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6ABC signal problems

14, 15, and 16 are reserved for Land Mobile (police and whatnot) in New York. So are 19 and 20 in Philly, and 18 has to protect it. So are 17 and 18 in DC, 16 and 19 must protect. 15 is WFDC-DT in Washington. There's a channel 18 in the New York DMA, by the way, WMBC-DT in Newton. 37 is not a legal TV channel. 51 is WNJN-DT in Montclair, NJ. WETA-DT has petitioned to move from 27 to 51, as has WWPX-DT from 12 to 51.

The upper-VHF is better than low-VHF, but upper-VHF doesn't work well on indoor antennas either. Evidence in the real world is supporting this assertion.

No. The FCC is allowing stations to be spaced much closer together in the post-transition world. Examples: WETA/WGTW, WCAU/WPXW, WYBE/WDCA, WTXF/WMPT, WFMZ/WBFF. The spacing rule is now 122 miles for UHF stations in Zone I, where Philly and DC are located.

- Trip
 
WPVI has applied to boost power to 30.2 kW.

- Trip
 
Hi, I just saw this Blog, and happy to see the WPVI is appling for a bump in power. How much of an increase is this, and how long does the process take? I miss Charlie Gibson at 6:30.
 
WPVI-6 was always planning on moving back to low band VHF. See my email question below to them a couple of years back. I am surprised that more people didn't see the problem coming...

Most HDTV antannas are designed for high gain in the UHF band only although many do ok with high band VHF since the band is adjacent. That's why WHYY-12 isn't having as many problems.
If you looked at the design and marketing behind the current crop of HDTV OTA antennas you will see the problem - few are designed to include low band VHF.

EMAIL:

Hi Chris

Our current plan is to return to Channel 6. If you keep your current OTA antenna, you should be covered for both V and U reception. My understanding is a fair amount of stations in this area will return to their V positions. We are going to 6, WGAL to 8, and Baltimore is going all V.

Best regards,

Hank


-----Original Message-----
From: WPVI-TV Cyber6
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:38 AM
To: Volpe, Hank
Subject: FW: 6abc HDTV QUESTION



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:34 AM
To: WPVI-TV Cyber6
Subject: 6abc HDTV QUESTION



Comments: When you stop transmitting Analog in 2009 will the HD
broadcast currently in the UHF band move down to your old Analog VHF
position? I want to put up an OTA antenna and I need to know if I can
just put up a UHF antenna for the DTV broadcast.

Thanks, Chris
 
Lots of people saw it coming, but it didn't really matter.

Lots of stations went back to UPPER-VHF. Not to low-VHF, where WPVI is. Big difference.

- Trip
 
day 2 of getting a solid signal from 6ABC. ;D Either the cloudes are providing a nice VHF reflection for me, or WPVI bumped up the power.
 
I wonder if there is any RF energy transmitted on 87.7 FM. I have noticed no difference in my Pulse 87 reception since WPVI's power increase.
 
Nick said:
I wonder if there is any RF energy transmitted on 87.7 FM. I have noticed no difference in my Pulse 87 reception since WPVI's power increase.
Click to expand...

Nick: Digital TV is STILL RF energy, just like analog. You might get pulse on FM with an antenna pointed away from WPVI-DT and towards Pulse.
 
I noticed that the signal was going in and out yesterday while I was at the corner store. They had an converter box and had it on 6ABC.
 
Has anyone contact the station directly about the latest signal problems? If so, what did they tell you. Also does anyone think if WPVI goes to a UHF digital channel (PISP will still display the virtual channel as 6.1 and so on ), will the signal problems be solved?
 
Did you contact them Julius, and what did they tell you? :p
 
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