Hello Nightfox!

** On Saturday 04.09.21 - 13:33, Nightfox wrote to HusTler:

The other day, I ordered one of these, and I'm hoping it will work better for me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09BN61J67/

Any progress?


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Re: Locast suspends operations
By: Ogg to Nightfox on Mon Sep 13 2021 10:19 pm

The other day, I ordered one of these, and I'm hoping it will work
better for me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09BN61J67/

Any progress?

The new antenna I ordered hasn't arrived yet.. Amazon originally said it was supposed to arrive last Tuesday, but then they said the arrival date was updated and now it says it should arrive this Thursday.

Nightfox

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Hello Nightfox!

** On Tuesday 14.09.21 - 08:41, Nightfox wrote to Ogg:

The other day, I ordered one of these, and I'm hoping it
will work better for me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/
product/B09BN61J67/

The new antenna I ordered hasn't arrived yet.. Amazon
originally said it was supposed to arrive last Tuesday, but
then they said the arrival date was updated and now it says
it should arrive this Thursday.

How did it go?


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Re: Locast suspends operations
By: Ogg to Nightfox on Thu Oct 28 2021 07:41 pm

The other day, I ordered one of these, and I'm hoping it
will work better for me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/
product/B09BN61J67/

The new antenna I ordered hasn't arrived yet.. Amazon
originally said it was supposed to arrive last Tuesday, but
then they said the arrival date was updated and now it says
it should arrive this Thursday.

How did it go?

That URL links to a different item on Amazon now, but if it's the antenna I'm thinking of, it's working fairly well for me. I found that the one I bought only was for UHF though, but they have a VHF antenna add-on that I bought for it. Overall it seems to be working well, and actually may be overkill for where I am.

Nightfox

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Hello Nightfox!

** On Thursday 28.10.21 - 22:06, Nightfox wrote to Ogg:

I'm thinking of, it's working fairly well for me. I found
that the one I bought only was for UHF though, but they
have a VHF antenna add-on that I bought for it.

The digital progs are on UHF, so I suppose you're needing the
VHF for FM radio? I'm glad that radio hasn't gone totally
digital.

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Re: Locast suspends operations
By: Ogg to Nightfox on Fri Oct 29 2021 08:13 am

I'm thinking of, it's working fairly well for me. I found
that the one I bought only was for UHF though, but they
have a VHF antenna add-on that I bought for it.

The digital progs are on UHF, so I suppose you're needing the
VHF for FM radio? I'm glad that radio hasn't gone totally
digital.

No, actually, there's at least one TV station in my area broadcasting on a VHF frequency.

Nightfox

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The digital progs are on UHF, so I suppose you're needing the
VHF for FM radio? I'm glad that radio hasn't gone totally
digital.

No, actually, there's at least one TV station in my area broadcasting on a VHF >requency.

We have ones whose signal "maps" to a former VHF frequency number (i.e. 3
and 11) but, if you look them up, the "real" signal is actually UHF now.
There is something about digital that allows the stations to "fake" their frequency so that they can keep their old station number while transmitting
a signal on a different frequency.

Originally, that was what allowed them to broadcast in analog and digital before the complete changeover deadline. Once the changeover happened,
some of the UHF stations moved their digital broadcasts to their old UHF
analog number, but most of the former VHF stations stayed on the UHF band.


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Re: Locast suspends operation
By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Sat Oct 30 2021 10:43 am

No, actually, there's at least one TV station in my area broadcasting
on a VHF requency.

We have ones whose signal "maps" to a former VHF frequency number (i.e. 3 and 11) but, if you look them up, the "real" signal is actually UHF now. There is something about digital that allows the stations to "fake" their frequency so that they can keep their old station number while transmitting a signal on a different frequency.

I looked up their channel information online, and according to the intertubes, they're actually broadcasting on a VHF frequency.

Nightfox

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Re: Locast suspends operation
By: Nightfox to Dumas Walker on Sat Oct 30 2021 11:21 am

We have ones whose signal "maps" to a former VHF frequency number (i.e. 3 and 11) but, if you look them up, the "real" signal is actually UHF now. There is something about digital that allows the stations to "fake" their frequency so that they can keep their old station number while transmitting a signal on a different frequency.

I looked up their channel information online, and according to the intertubes, they're actually broadcasting on a VHF frequency.

here is a website for transmitter locations

https://www.antennasdirect.com/transmitter-locator.html

i have a lot over by me but i dont feel like messing with antennas.

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We have ones whose signal "maps" to a former VHF frequency number (i.e. 3
and 11) but, if you look them up, the "real" signal is actually UHF now. There is something about digital that allows the stations to "fake" their
frequency so that they can keep their old station number while transmitting a signal on a different frequency.

I looked up their channel information online, and according to the intertubes,
hey're actually broadcasting on a VHF frequency.

Interesting!


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