D. Stussy wrote:

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On Jul 16, 11:36 pm, Steve Urbach wrote:

San Francisco,Oakland,San Jose area
2, 4, 5 are very good and popular stations in the low VHF band


All active analog stations with a digital signal are broadcasting
that digital signal on a different channel. The ATSC tuners maps them
to the displayed channel number. Some 500 stations will flash cut
their digital signal back to their analog channel next February after
the analog shutdown, but the vast majority of the low VHF analog
stations will have their physical be on UHF or upper VHF.

In the San Francisco market,
KTVU-DT Fox 2 is currently on UHF 56, will move to UHF 44 next year.
KRON-DT MyN 4 is currently on UHF 57, will move to UHF 38 next year.
KPIX-DT CBS 5 is currently on UHF 29 and will stay there next year.
KGO-DT ABC 7 is currently on UHF 24, will flash cut to VHF 7 next
year.
KNTV-DT NBC 11 is on UHF 12 and will stay there next year.
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Which, for the clueless, means NO DTV on 2-6, which is exactly what I said.


Hi Stussy. Well I see that HDTV arrangements are just as chaotic in the
us as they are in NZ. Even now many in the trade are still "guessing".
We have allocated 6 UHF channels for HDTV but since NZ is a very hilly
country this gives only patchy coverage out to about 50Km with a lot of
dead spots. At least we are keeping SDTV running for a few years yet on
VHF and UHF.
Where I live about 55Km from Auckland we can't get solid HDTV reception
and they aren't using satellite HDTV for free to air Tv for a while, so
we will have to wait despite having a suitable RX.
Let's hope they sort themselves out soon everywhere, though I fear that
things have been allowed to become too disorganised.
Cliff Wright ZL1BDA