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DTV DX

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How about this for DTV DX?

I live in Cut Off, LA, 30 miles SW of New Orleans, and I have been playing with my antenna and HDTV since Katrina knocked most of the NO digital stations off the air. I have my antenna pointed Northwest (mainly to pick up the Baton Rouge Stations) and I am picking up Austin's KLRU-DT Channel 22 Mapped to 18.

Also, I picked up ABC13 in Houston and KHOU in Houston for a few minutes but they did not last long they started to drop out after an hour.
 
> How about this for DTV DX?

For those who DX TV, DTV is changing the hobby -- no doubt -- but it is not making it impossible.

DTV, as you have come to notice, is far less forgiving than analog TV. It's due to what the engineering geeks call "cliff effect." Without a proper data stream, the signal drops out entirely. And, in the real world, we are seeing that multipath is as big a problem for the mode than low signal levels.

Still, many hobbyists have getting nice catches. I have seen people's loggings on tropo in excess of 700 miles, and even a few lucky folks have gotten sporadic-E stations. The DTV on 2 in South Dakota has been seen in the Midwest; the DTV 2 in Las Vegas has been seen in my neck of the woods a few times. Cleveland and Tallahassee have also been seen off the ionosphere once or twice.

Find out more by visting and/or joining WTFDA, the TV/FM DX Club:

http://www.anarc.org/wtfda/

> I am picking up Austin's KLRU-DT Channel
> 22 Mapped to 18.

Good one.

DE
 
> How about this for DTV DX?
>
> I live in Cut Off, LA, 30 miles SW of New Orleans, and I
> have been playing with my antenna and HDTV since Katrina
> knocked most of the NO digital stations off the air. I have
> my antenna pointed Northwest (mainly to pick up the Baton
> Rouge Stations) and I am picking up Austin's KLRU-DT Channel
> 22 Mapped to 18.
>
> Also, I picked up ABC13 in Houston and KHOU in Houston for a
> few minutes but they did not last long they started to drop
> out after an hour.
>


Hi Tri-parish
Hadn't seen you on the Louisiana board for awile... Was wondering, how high is your reception antenna? I know Corpus Christi was coming in Friday night after thanksgiving on the FM band like locals so some DTV should have made it across the Gulf also?


The website dead elvis mentioned is a good one, but for the idea of how far you can catch try: http://www.dxfm.com/ who has a screen save of ch. 2 (not a local for him) in Kentucky that is updated every 10 sec. plus screen shots of DTV

There is another great one :http://www.oldtvguides.com/DXPhotos/


But anyhow, wondering where to point for those local DTV signals? Try
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/Welcome.aspx

RFLA
 
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