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DXing: TV audio on 87.7

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Al Timiter

You are probably the only people who would appreciate this! I know most of you know about VHF Channel Six audio also available at 87.7 on FM....Sometimes I listen to WJBF out of Augusta....well the other morning I was picking up FOX 6 from Birmingham! Pretty Amazing...they were doing their morning news show.. I e-mailed the engineer...he was pretty amazed. It was on the NE side of Columbia...Anybody else caught anything unusual at 87.7?
 
Your post just gave me a sad reminder...of analog TV anyway...won't TV dxing be a thing of the past come Feb, 2009 when the analog transmitters become boat anchors?

Eric
 
Going south on I 95 one foggy morning near Brunswick GA, got a very clear (no fades whatsoever) Ch 6 in Tallahassee on 87.7. Probably about 150-175 mi. Not as far as the Birmingham "catch" but pretty cool.
 
eacalhoun1 said:
Your post just gave me a sad reminder...of analog TV anyway...won't TV dxing be a thing of the past come Feb, 2009 when the analog transmitters become boat anchors?
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Nope; DXers have already DXd some of the interim DTV facilities. Best tropo DX I know of is 800 miles (New Orleans <=> Raleigh), and there's been some sporadic-E DX though the relative lack of channel 2-6 DTVs makes that considerably rarer. Rapid City <=> Lexington KY among others.

The relative "unuse" of channels 2-6 also will probably make it *easier* for DXers to see Latin American stations once the U.S. analog stations go off. (until the Latin American stations go off, but to my knowledge no Western Hemisphere country except the U.S. and Canada has set a drop-dead date for analog)
 
Al Timiter said:
You are probably the only people who would appreciate this! I know most of you know about VHF Channel Six audio also available at 87.7 on FM....Sometimes I listen to WJBF out of Augusta....well the other morning I was picking up FOX 6 from Birmingham! Pretty Amazing...they were doing their morning news show.. I e-mailed the engineer...he was pretty amazed. It was on the NE side of Columbia...Anybody else caught anything unusual at 87.7?
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I'm northeast of Charlotte in the Southern Piedmont of North Carolina. I have heard WCNC-TV Channel 36/Charlotte and WECT-TV Channel 6/Wilmington on 87.7 FM.
 
If you heard WCNC/36 on 87.7 you better call Time Warner as your cable service obviously has leakage problems which probably causes poor reception on a number of channels ( WCNC is on channel 6 on all Charlotte area cable systems).
 
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