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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    almost all my channels call letters on sub 1 have changed to d1 suffix. 22 went to d1 and d2 instead of hd and sd, 53 still calls hd and sd but changed slightly to hd1 and -sd. I see the new guide info on 22-2 as well. Is that the stations, or a the voom box doing that?
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    I beleive that all the channels from the super dma are now appearing in my local channles screen. Not receiving any of the newly added channels except 16(26) every now and then.
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    Report channels missing from the Super-DMA

    I don't think I"m getting the super dma for pittsburgh. Nothing changed in the local channels menu item for me. I did start getting WQEX this am after a new scan. I now have 13 channels, counting all the sub channels. My scan pauses for 33, but does not pick it up as the signal seems to...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    Thanks Bryan, for the interesting writeup. I enjoyed getting more of the details. It's always fun to hear the history of a technical subject like this, and see what motivated the participants to follow a particular path vs another. As far as this round of choices goes, when is it due to wrap...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    where do you get this info? Is it freely available on the web? Is there an easily digestible writeup (like yours!) out there, or do I have to wade through dozens of FCC docs to get up to date on this tech? Where is the 2-6 debate raging? Do you think they will make the tv band 7-51...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    I didn't look at my local channels menu, but isnt' this just the saved result of the scan inside the installer wizard menu's? I did the scan this am but did not get anything new. There was once a a long while ago, when they first added the scan feature that I got several additional channels...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    Only 26 miles south of the city, and I've gotten almost everything with the batwing attick antenna, but this winter I was having trouble with 11 and 13. Some days they come in strong, some days not at all, others they float in an out. I rescanned this morning, no sign of some other channels...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    I'm getting equator up there too. I never have problems with a reboot when watching WQED for too long. On reboot, I watch right away. PG takes forever to get repopulated (you'd think they would save this in some novolatile ram or something), but I don't have trouble getting back to any...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    WQED is finally back on with good signal strength WQED - DT is back on the air tonight finally with a good signal strength. It wouldn't come in on 13-3, when that was the only voom mapped channel, and WQED was broadcasting on 13-3 through 13-6. Now with OTA scanning on the voom STB, and WQED...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    I finally saw a program on 13-2 on WQED. The niagara falls special. It was a grainy picture. I was wondering if it was HD at all. It said PBS-HD in the upper left corner, but most people are putting there HD on -1 and their SD on -2. I wonder if WQED will be different. This was around 10pm...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    WQED used to broadcast on 13-3 13-4 13-5, and 13-6 back before voom offered scanning for channels, and came premapped. The main hd feed was on 13-3. So that's where voom mapped it and that's where the program guide info was. But WQED wasn't showing up on Voom even with a signal strength in...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    It's back on for pittsburgh football this weekend, but no Hi Def! :mad:
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    WQED PSIP finally correct but signal Strength low and still no picture WQED is finally broadcasting the correct PSIP. I scanned 4 times today, and the 3rd time, I got the 4 WQED subchannels into my lineup at 13-1 thru 13-4. The scan at that point showed the signal strenght at 90+ on 13-1 and...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    I lost it for a couple days too, no single strength at all. I think it's back on tonight. I sure wish WQED would solve it's problem with Voom. How am I going to see the next pledge drive and send in my contribution if it doesn't show up in digital!
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    WQED came back a few days after my last post, but still at 80-3. But in the last two days, abc (51 (4)) WTAE seems to have dropped of the air. Anyone else notice this?
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    Voom needs to Contact WQED Pittsburgh

    WQED is off the air tonight. i usually get 94-96 signal strength and a blank screen, now it's no signal strength and a blank screen. They've been operating off a transmitter with no pisp, so they've been just carrying through the national feeds psip which is 80-3. I've been told that when...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    Well, WQED is off the air tonight. 38 has no signal strength at all, and I usually get in the 94-96. I hope it's because they are putting the transmitter with the psip generator back in. I rescan almost every night looking for a change from 80-3 back to 13-3 or 13-1. I hope its fixed and...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    That's an interesting thought. Who can blame them though. Running on donations, FCC breathing down their necks, HD equipment costing big bucks, etc. I hope they can resolve it all soon. It would be nice to make the easy flip on the voom box, instead of switching inputs on my tv, and...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    I get a 94-95 signal str on the voom box with with 26, and I also dont get it to scan add. I'm seeing channel 29 too, but at an inconsistent 81 or less signal strength, so it won't lock in. I wonder if I upgraded to an omnidirectional, if that would enable me to pick up some of these...
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    Voom needs to Contact WQED Pittsburgh

    I have an email of someone at WQED but I didn't want to give it out, because this contact has been so good about replying to me and explaining problems, or just shooting the breeze about the quality of service, etc. I don't want them to be flooded by emails from this forum. WQED has...
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    Voom needs to Contact WQED Pittsburgh

    I've had an email conversation with someone at WQED Pittsburgh about their psip problem (will be fixed sometime soon), and they said they have been trying to get in touch with someone who works at voom to talk about the inability of the voom receiver to display WQED Pittsburgh 13-3. Some seem...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    C'mon, Canada! Throw a dog a bone! ;)
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    pittsburgh and the new software You've quite a large number of channels in your digital lineup, bryan. The forum zapped out the leading spaces in my post, or you would have seen two columns. Oh, well, guess the message got across anyway. I'm afraid to move the antenna to get 33...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    Pittsburgh, PA new software Scan for channels ok, woke up this am and the bedroom box was on. I know I put it in standby before I hit the sack around 11:30. Turned on the tv and there it was, transparent menu! So I got new software upstairs now. Also downstairs as I just checked. Well...
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    Pittsburgh-West (including Wheeling/Steubenville) Voomers

    Bryan27: We still haven't figured out what the mapping problem is. I just hope the new software is out soon so we can see if the scanning software will pick it up. I don't even know if I have an amp on my WineGuard. I heard its supposed to come with one but sometimes the installer will not...