Not quite right. The majority of stations are staying on their assigned digital channels. It is EXTREMELY expensive to change channels, so unless there is a compelling reason to move back to a station's analog channel, most are staying put. Out of eleven stations in the network I'm CE for, we moved one back to its VHF analog channel on 2/17.
Hap Griffin ----- Original Message ----- From: John Gleichweit To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] How about a Freq list for the new DTV channels There's no change in how the channels are divided up. The frequencies are all remaining the same, just where the digital vs. analog signal has changed. Generally, the announced channel number is for the analog signal, with the digital signal in another channel slot, until the official changeover in June. After that, stations will be moving their digital signals over to their announced channel. If you have a UHF antenna, you're all set, as most of the DTV stations are, or will be, in the UHF band. A few stations will still be in the high end of the VHF band, and even fewer in the low end of the VHF band. None of the stations will be above Channel 53. -- John "Smokey Behr" Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10, Moderator x9 CA-OES 51-507 http://smokeybehr.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/smokeybehr ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jeff <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2009 7:42:07 AM > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] How about a Freq list for the new DTV channels > > It would be nice to have an updated TV chan freq list so I could see what kind > of antenna would actually work best for this
