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  1. Trip

    Aware of the RabbitEars Outage

    Made a post about the recent issues on the RabbitEars Blog. https://www.rabbitears.info/blog/index.php?post/2024/04/20/Third-Unscheduled-Outage-in-a-Month - Trip
  2. Trip

    Aware of the RabbitEars Outage

    We're up again. - Trip
  3. Trip

    Aware of the RabbitEars Outage

    I'm aware that it's down again. This is the third outage in the last month. It appears there may be some kind of sporadic hardware issue but I've been unable to get any kind of error message to be able to diagnose it. Today's issue is particularly dumb. The server was being flaky but there...
  4. Trip

    Aware of the RabbitEars Outage

    Looks like we're back up and running. Not sure what happened, so doing a full backup out of pattern right now just in case. - Trip
  5. Trip

    Aware of the RabbitEars Outage

    Good morning, I am aware of the outage, and have no information to share at this time. - Trip
  6. Trip

    Recommendation for very strong UHF signal

    You should click the link I provided. It's a link to an actual tuner nearby showing the RF channel. - Trip
  7. Trip

    Recommendation for very strong UHF signal

    I'm correct about both. Both KHQA and WGEM are still on their VHF channels. https://m.rabbitears.info/index.php?request=tvdx_grid&tid=101B94C9&tno=0 - Trip
  8. Trip

    Recommendation for very strong UHF signal

    Both have permission from the FCC to move to UHF channels, but at this moment, both are still on their VHF channels, same as the analogs were. - Trip
  9. Trip

    About the future Weigel Broadcasting station in Green Bay, Wisconsin...

    There is no evidence to support the statement that tower and equipment was purchased or that it will be moved. Weigel bought a construction permit for the vacant allotment at an FCC auction of vacant allotments. Further, while Weigel has requested the move to Shawano, Weigel has provided only...
  10. Trip

    Kudo's to Silicone Dust

    Yeah, one thing I've always loved about SiliconDust is their support. One of my HDHRs is dead and outside of warranty and if I can ever actually go collect it (it's remote) they're going to replace it for me. - Trip
  11. Trip

    ATSC 3.0 DRM Encryption

    You're in luck. There's a new standard that fixes that problem. It's called ATSC 3.0. - Trip
  12. Trip

    ATSC 3.0 DRM Encryption

    This... isn't true? At all? The transition is voluntary at this point. Any station that has converted has volunteered to do so. - Trip
  13. Trip

    Say goodbye to OETA pbs. (Never mind! Funding restored.)

    Some individual PBS stations get extensive government funding, while some do not. The statements you hear are almost always about PBS or NPR as a networks, not individual stations. And it's important to listen for that term "federal funding," as we're talking here about state funding. Here's...
  14. Trip

    Say goodbye to OETA pbs. (Never mind! Funding restored.)

    Updating thread title to reflect veto override. - Trip
  15. Trip

    KMBC-TV, Kansas City, MO, now carrying Charge on Ch. 9.4.

    First time this FCC staffer has ever heard that. - Trip
  16. Trip

    Kansas City, MO, ATSC 3.0 TV stations now using QAM256 encryption

    256QAM isn't encryption, it's a modulation. - Trip
  17. Trip

    These TV Stations Sold Out Antenna Viewers in $20 Billion FCC Repack

    I can name several. "Nexstar sold KRON." Incorrect. Nexstar did not own KRON at the time of the auction, Media-General did. In fact, Nexstar did not sell any stations in the auction, making his later statement in the video about Nexstar being one of the biggest sellers incorrect as well...
  18. Trip

    These TV Stations Sold Out Antenna Viewers in $20 Billion FCC Repack

    This video, unfortunately, has a number of pretty significant factual errors in it. I've flagged them to Tyler; hopefully he'll revise or issue a correction. - Trip
  19. Trip

    Is ATSC 3.0 sputtering or out of gas?

    I'll quote my own post on another forum this morning. "I mean, it's a voluntary transition, per their own request, so if it is in "peril," then it implies nobody volunteered. Doesn't help that there are still, seven years later (by their count), almost no receivers, and they're in the middle of...
  20. Trip

    WSHM-LD (Springfield, MA) Did they change broadcast locations?

    It did. They filed a license to cover for Mount Tom. - Trip
  21. Trip

    Repack woes

    For all the folks complaining about the RabbitEars predictions, the software powering it is the same software the FCC uses for coverage predictions, and is an implementation of the Longley-Rice model. Pretty much all TV predictions are done with Longley-Rice, which is known to under-predict...
  22. Trip

    Repack woes

    The repack did not touch WBRE. That you lost it as well implies something else is going on. - Trip
  23. Trip

    What antenna? RI

    Warning: Do not use TVFool. Its database has not been updated in more than four years, and it is now riddled with errors and omissions. The RabbitEars Signal Search Map, as originally posted, is the correct tool to use. You're going to need something big with support for low-VHF, and even...
  24. Trip

    Nexstar looking to purchase the CW Network

    The chances of Gray losing a Fox affiliation to WBUP are effectively zero. - Trip