good ota info

[elocs]

I have found 2 sites that are helpful in finding which ota stations are available. Antennaweb.org is good about finding out about antennas, but it does not always tell about all of the stations available in an area.

http://www.2150.com/broadcast/default.asp
Using this site you can find your longitude and latitude and input it along with how many miles away you want to search for stations. It is interesting to play around with.

http://www.hdtvpub.com/
With this site you input your zipcode to find out information about the locals available along with comments about them. I found this helpful in my search for an NBC station because the one in my dma is Eau Claire, WI, and is 58 miles from me and there is some question about its power. Using this site I found that the NBC station in Rochester, MN is an alternative (66 miles away) and it is operating at full power although it is not in my dma. This is good information to know with the super dma rolling out. Also this site mentioned that KTTC Rochester has towers closer to where I live (La Crosse, WI) and that it might be a possibility that they would broadcast an hd signal at some future date from these towers which would be more easily received by me.

I hope this helps somebody else. Information is power.

 

[PhilipF]

Good info!

Thanks

 

[Vicki]

Good work elocs!!

I checked out those links, and they are helpful indeed... Thanks!

In the course of using the first one, I found this link
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/geomag/jsp/struts/calcDeclination and went back to this one that had been posted earlier http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennasatelazposcalc.html , in an effort to figure out how I might need to correct for my compass settings for the satellite.

Between the two, I got in way over my head, I think, and am now very thoroughly confused!!

I'm posting my utter confusion in another thread under Installation, so as not to clog up this very good thread! Vicki