2009-06-13, 07:30 PM
So how did everyone receiving US OTA digital do yesterday?
I had a few of my channels switch around noon, but the rest didn't switch until midnight. Given the hap-hazzard nature of this whole excercise, I'm surprised they all switched the same day. I didn't want to scan and map twice, so I just let the dead ones lie until they all switched.
As to which ones switched, I had about half of my main 12 channels move around... the original VHF-Hi channels all moved back to their original channels (7, 9, 11, 13), while the original VHF-Lo (2, 4, 5) channels stayed on UHF. I understand it's that way in most markets, because the VHF-Lo frequencies require a much larger antenna to receive well, and are more susceptible to impulse noise which wreaks havoc on digital streams. My UHF-optimized antenna doesn't get VHF-Lo well at all, but does quite well on VHF-Hi so this all worked well for me.
Channel 2 actually took the UHF channel 9 had been using (43), so for half the day we could still watch channel 2 by picking 9 from the guide.
On the upside of all of this, my channels all seem to come in better now. Specifically channels 7 and 13 (formerly on UHF 53 and 66 respectively) could not be received at all by my USB tuner before, now they come in perfectly. No doubt this a combination of the frequency change and an increase in broadcast power. So at last both of my tuners have all the channels.
I had a few of my channels switch around noon, but the rest didn't switch until midnight. Given the hap-hazzard nature of this whole excercise, I'm surprised they all switched the same day. I didn't want to scan and map twice, so I just let the dead ones lie until they all switched.
As to which ones switched, I had about half of my main 12 channels move around... the original VHF-Hi channels all moved back to their original channels (7, 9, 11, 13), while the original VHF-Lo (2, 4, 5) channels stayed on UHF. I understand it's that way in most markets, because the VHF-Lo frequencies require a much larger antenna to receive well, and are more susceptible to impulse noise which wreaks havoc on digital streams. My UHF-optimized antenna doesn't get VHF-Lo well at all, but does quite well on VHF-Hi so this all worked well for me.
Channel 2 actually took the UHF channel 9 had been using (43), so for half the day we could still watch channel 2 by picking 9 from the guide.
On the upside of all of this, my channels all seem to come in better now. Specifically channels 7 and 13 (formerly on UHF 53 and 66 respectively) could not be received at all by my USB tuner before, now they come in perfectly. No doubt this a combination of the frequency change and an increase in broadcast power. So at last both of my tuners have all the channels.
server: NextPVR 5.0.7/Win10 2004/64-bit/AMD A6-7400k/hvr-2250 & hvr-1250/Winegard Flatwave antenna/Schedules Direct
main client: NextPVR 5.0.7 Desktop Client; LG 50UH5500 WebOS 3.0 TV
main client: NextPVR 5.0.7 Desktop Client; LG 50UH5500 WebOS 3.0 TV
