The DTV transition, some "it's almost time" observations...

[pqgeorge]

It's 12:40, and the Boston stations have all converted. At 11:59PM, Chs. 2, and 5 are in nightlight mode (after a commercial break on Nightline, ch. 5 cout off to reporter Susan Wornick, who spoke about the transition and the nightlight more which is now on), ch. 56 went off, and ch. 7 went off during a commercial break of the Tonight show. I did a rescan of my converter boxes, and RF 27 went to ch. 66. I also notice after the transition ch. 48, the Daystar affiliate, has a much stronger signal. However, I can no longer get ch. 7 (which was at RF42), even when I added the RF 7 frequency. Anyone else not getting channel 7 after midnight? I'll try again in the morning.

The WHDH-TV Channel 7 signal in digital is definitely not as powerful as the Channel 42 signal. I was rather disappointed with signal with digital 7. Let's hope the digital era might improve as time goes on. Good night, analog.

 

[alg2468]

If you see the posts at www.avsforum.com and go to the Local Reception section and then go to Boston, you'll see several responses about people not getting WHDH-DT after midnight. Apparently many people lost the signal. WHDH, you got some 'splaning' to do".

 

[necrat123]

If you see the posts at www.avsforum.com and go to the Local Reception section and then go to Boston, you'll see several responses about people not getting WHDH-DT after midnight. Apparently many people lost the signal. WHDH, you got some 'splaning' to do".

Real simple. Everyone had UHF only DTV antennas in the market and were content. All those fancy square and odd shaped antennas that work wonders on UHF, are absolutle crap on VHF. I have a UHF only antenna at my location, and b/c of that I am aware I will not receive any V's, but am OK with that. I hope WHDH puts a "7.3" SD feed on the WLVI transmitter, so they have a SD signal on the UHF digital signal from the WLVI-DT plant.

 

[Blackroc]

I'm getting the full market collection, except ch:7.