Hi me here but am i the only one who have lost 58, 47, and 2? This is really weird and i checked out all dtvs in the house they don't pick those neither. Does anyone else have this problem?
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KDTX-DT 45, KDTN-DT 43, and KTAQ-DT 46
- Thread starter eskipper411
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I had noticed it last week on both KDTX and KDTN (hadn't looked at KTAQ until you mentioned it, but same problem). Guess I'll have to find somewhere else to watch people beg for my money. KERA, anyone? 
The transmitter coordinates 32.543167, -96.959139 Stations on transmitter KDTN, KTXA, KDFI, KDAF, KTAQ, KSTR, KLDT, and KDTX. Does anyone like you see this texas pr?
Not sure I understand the question: but KTXA, KDFI, KDAF and KSTR are all coming in clear at my home. I'm about 15 miles west/northwest of the tower farm in Cedar Hill in south-central Tarrant County. Not sure where the coordinates place it exactly (and too lazy to look up!).
Then what are they doing to those towers then?
Yeah i am seeing the same thing on the epg. But what are engineers doing? I will get a picture from KTAQ.
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Kelley Brown
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any ideas what happened to these stations? although our station numbers are different, we are not able to pick up these channels either, at least through the converter box. I can pick them up if I change it back to analog but that does me no good after the switch in February.
I'm not getting them on my antenna at all. KDTN and KDTX are still on cable just fine, but KTAQ is missing in action.
For what it's worth, these are all working again on my set.
tested said:
I noticed the same Friday evening.
Slightly OT, but did anyone else have problems with KDFW-DT 35 or KDFI-DT 36 this weekend?
Saturday KDFI-DT got very weak for several hours. It pixellated badly when I could pick it up at all. By late Sat. evening it was fine, though.
Then Sunday the same thing happened to KDFW-DT. It got too weak to pick up and my wife and I had to watch the Simpsons in analog. It's fine now, though.
Both are owned by Fox. KDFI-DT is at the same coordinates as the three listed in the thread topic. Seems like a lot of last-minute antenna work before the analog shutdown.
Saturday KDFI-DT got very weak for several hours. It pixellated badly when I could pick it up at all. By late Sat. evening it was fine, though.
Then Sunday the same thing happened to KDFW-DT. It got too weak to pick up and my wife and I had to watch the Simpsons in analog. It's fine now, though.
Both are owned by Fox. KDFI-DT is at the same coordinates as the three listed in the thread topic. Seems like a lot of last-minute antenna work before the analog shutdown.
Well, this is embarrassing.
Please ignore my previous post. There's nothing wrong with KDFW-DT 35 or KDFI-DT 36. My reception was being degraded by interference, which was also evident on (analog) KJJM 34. Apparently it started Saturday on channel 36 and slowly dropped in frequency until 36 was OK again but 34 and 35 were unwatchable. Naturally this had to happen just as I was installing a new VHF-Lo antenna - a coincidence which led me on a few wild-goose chases.
I finally homed in on the interference source by using a portable TV tuned to channel 34 and a small directional 2-bay UHF antenna. The problem turned out to be a recharger for a couple of walkie-talkies. Once I unplugged it, the interference cleared up. I plugged it back in and the interference came right back.
I reseated the walkie-talkies in the recharger, and then could plug everything back in without the interference coming back. Perhaps one of the walkie-talkies wasn't seated properly and was getting weak recharge current, and somehow that caused it to radiate way outside its normal frequency band. Who knows?
It occurs to me that this illustrates a problem with our much-vaunted digital TV technology. With an analog signal, it's pretty easy to distinguish between a weak signal and interference. But with digital, the result is exactly the same: no lock. And even if you do suspect interference, there's no homing in on the source by turning an antenna to null it out. It's worrisome that a station can be blocked by something as simple as a malfunctioning walkie-talkie several yards behind a directional antenna.
Please ignore my previous post. There's nothing wrong with KDFW-DT 35 or KDFI-DT 36. My reception was being degraded by interference, which was also evident on (analog) KJJM 34. Apparently it started Saturday on channel 36 and slowly dropped in frequency until 36 was OK again but 34 and 35 were unwatchable. Naturally this had to happen just as I was installing a new VHF-Lo antenna - a coincidence which led me on a few wild-goose chases.
I finally homed in on the interference source by using a portable TV tuned to channel 34 and a small directional 2-bay UHF antenna. The problem turned out to be a recharger for a couple of walkie-talkies. Once I unplugged it, the interference cleared up. I plugged it back in and the interference came right back.
I reseated the walkie-talkies in the recharger, and then could plug everything back in without the interference coming back. Perhaps one of the walkie-talkies wasn't seated properly and was getting weak recharge current, and somehow that caused it to radiate way outside its normal frequency band. Who knows?
It occurs to me that this illustrates a problem with our much-vaunted digital TV technology. With an analog signal, it's pretty easy to distinguish between a weak signal and interference. But with digital, the result is exactly the same: no lock. And even if you do suspect interference, there's no homing in on the source by turning an antenna to null it out. It's worrisome that a station can be blocked by something as simple as a malfunctioning walkie-talkie several yards behind a directional antenna.
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