On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:56 AM, t.piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:34 AM, Richard P. wrote: > >> Here's a local article from The Washington Post about the DC area losing 2 >> stations: >> > > Good story, but it did not help. I get 7 but not 9. If this were true and I > had an antenna problem I would get neither station. >
You also live close to the city. Did you put up a new antenna or just reuse an old one? I was doing very well with an old wire bow tie antenna from the junk box when they were on temporary UHF channels. I wonder how many stations are lobbying to get their temporary UHF frequencies back. I just pulled out an old low profile antenna that doesn't get enough signal for 7 or 9 unless I am in an absurd pose. I'm just outside the beltway. According to antennaweb.org I'm only 10.7 miles away from the transmitter towers which must be close together with 26, 7 and 9 at the same vector and distance. My converter box senses a signal for both 7 & 9 but doesn't get enough to make a picture. For some reason 26 doesn't consistently make it outside the beltway to Fairfax County either but it didn't before the switch over either. Here are the helpful webpages from 7 and 9 on antenna choices. http://cfc.wjla.com/external.cfm?p=dtv_vhf http://www.wusa9.com/life/programming/dtv/default.aspx I guess I need to wire up an outside antenna to see if that helps. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
