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Any DTV DXers??

What's the status about the FCC taken away more Channels??

If this happen's would the station that broadcast on VHF in Analog Now on UHF, be forced back to VHF Lo band??
 
Cuba is coming on strong on Analog TV Channels 2, 3 and 4 into Central KY. Also hearing lots of Florida, and a Cayman Island station on the 6 Meter Ham Band (50 MHZ) right now (8:30-9 PM Tuesday 6/12/12).
 
I was blessed to have caught for the first time today WACP DT 4 Atlantic City NJ. This is a brand new channel, and all there was was a "test pattern" of sorts: a view of Atlantic City or Philly from the air, with clearly "WACP4" in upper right!

Wish I knew how to contact them. Someone north of NYC saw it the other day, so I thought I'd give it a shot...and boom there it is, as John Madden says.

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MarioMania said:
What's the status about the FCC taken away more Channels??

If this happen's would the station that broadcast on VHF in Analog Now on UHF, be forced back to VHF Lo band??
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The FCC is working on an "incentive auction". The idea is to see how much ($$) stations will ask to give up some or all of their channel, and to see how much wireless operators are willing to pay for the spectrum thus freed up.

Yes, stations that agree to give up their entire channel will go off the air. Those that agree to give up *part of* their channel will share a channel with some other station. Basically they become a subchannel of that other station. Both stations' HD quality will be limited, as will their ability to implement subchannels. On the other hand, both channels will split some of the spectrum revenue, without having to go completely out of business.

Once they know how many stations' spectrum can be sold, they will "repack" that spectrum. They'll force stations on higher channels that don't sell to move to lower channels vacated by stations that did sell. They cannot, at this point, force a station to move from UHF to VHF, nor from VHF-high to VHF-low. I have seen it suggested they may offer some of the spectrum revenue to stations which *volunteer* to make such a move.

There are still a LOT of gaps in the plan.
 
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