Good DXing in Plano last night/this morning

[arnoldevns]

Atmosphere is providing for lots of long-distance reception right now. Some local channels are also hard to get because other digital signals are trying to come in over them.

Here's what I'm getting this morning. I'm also getting all the sub-channels, but these are the primary display channels:

Shreveport
KTBS 3
KSLA 12

Austin
KLRU 18
KVUE 24
KXAN 36
KAKW 62

Waco
KXXV 25

San Antonio
KHCE 23

 

[eskipper411]

I received KTBS, KWTX, and KXXV. I guess it maybe my cable or tuner that is not too sensitive.

 

[arnoldevns]

In fairness, I have an antenna on the roof of my house.... probably 25-30 feet above ground. It's designed to pick up signals from fringe viewing areas.

 

[newsmark]

It's designed to pick up signals from fringe viewing areas.

What channels do you normally receive beyond the usual DFW full power and low power stations? I'd assume KXII. Does anything else out-of-market come in always or often?

 

[Bob E. Nelson]

Atmosphere is providing for lots of long-distance reception right now. Some local channels are also hard to get because other digital signals are trying to come in over them.

That allows me to beat the dead horse of KFWD one more time. I wanted to watch the WFAA news replay (a nightly ritual for me). The QRM from KCEN (a scant 92 miles away from Cedar Hill) was such that poor little channel 52 (on RF-9) was gone for the entire night and well into the next morning. I just wonder if the unlikely-to-ever-be-built 55 kW CP would overcome what the current 13 kW facility routinely suffers at my place?

KWTX was blasting in but had no adjacent-channel ill-effects whatsoever on KTVT's RF-11. I did note that KTAQ (RF-46) was suffering just a tiny bit from co-channel KNCT (dropping from 92% to 82% on a consumer set meter) but still good and solid.

Aside from Waco and Austin blasting in, I also caught NBC programming on virtual channel 23 for just a few seconds. It vanished before I could ID it via PSIP. KVEO from the Valley maybe?

 

[JHBrandt]

I just wonder if the unlikely-to-ever-be-built 55 kW CP would overcome what the current 13 kW facility routinely suffers at my place?

In theory it should help quite a bit, since there'd have to be an extra 6 dB of noise+QRM to prevent reception. You're already into the tail of the bell curve when KCEN is coming through strongly enough to cause trouble, so I'd expect the extra 6 dB to reduce the number of interference days substantially.

In most ways you live in a good spot, but in this particular case your location causes trouble, as there's only about 5 degrees angular separation between Cedar Hill and the Waco transmitters. And on VHF you probably won't find a directional enough antenna to leverage that 5 degrees enough to reject KCEN. (Combining signals from two identical VHF antennas separated by about 30 feet might theoretically work, but I'd bet the setup would be really touchy. You'd have to be able to move one antenna forward/back about three feet to find the spot that maximized KFWD while nulling KCEN.)

 

[tripinva]

Aside from Waco and Austin blasting in, I also caught NBC programming on virtual channel 23 for just a few seconds. It vanished before I could ID it via PSIP. KVEO from the Valley maybe?

If it was on physical 23, could have been KMAY-LD from Bryan.

- Trip

 

[arnoldevns]

It's designed to pick up signals from fringe viewing areas.

What channels do you normally receive beyond the usual DFW full power and low power stations? I'd assume KXII. Does anything else out-of-market come in always or often?

I do not have a rotator on my antenna. If I did, KXII would be an easy catch. My antenna is pointed toward Cedar Hill.

Most-common out of market catch is KXXV.

 

[eskipper411]

It's designed to pick up signals from fringe viewing areas.

What channels do you normally receive beyond the usual DFW full power and low power stations? I'd assume KXII. Does anything else out-of-market come in always or often?

Mine has always been KFDX or KJTL from the NW even though my antenna is pointed at Cedar Hill.

I do not have a rotator on my antenna. If I did, KXII would be an easy catch. My antenna is pointed toward Cedar Hill.

Most-common out of market catch is KXXV.