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OCTOBER 2014 The Magazine for TV and FM DXers DIY UHF antenna put together by Mike Glass in Indianapolis CLEAR CHANNEL BECOMES iHEARTMEDIA, IF ONLY WE HAD AN iHEARTDXing TROPO IS SLOW. WHAT IS IT WITH 2014? HAITI'S NEW ANALOG CHANNEL 2 IS BEING REPORTED IN THE SOUTHEAST U.S., BUT “STORM TV” MAY NOT BE AROUND FOR LONG... wtfda.org THE WORLDWIDE TV-FM DX ASSOCIATION Serving the UHF-VHF Enthusiast THE VHF-UHF DIGEST IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WORLDWIDE TV-FM DX ASSOCIATION DEDICATED TO THE OBSERVATION AND STUDY OF THE PROPAGATION OF LONG DISTANCE TELEVISION AND FM BROADCASTING SIGNALS AT VHF AND UHF. WTFDA IS GOVERNED BY A BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DOUG SMITH, GREG CONIGLIO, KEITH McGINNIS AND MIKE BUGAJ. Editor and publisher: Ryan Grabow Treasurer: Keith McGinnis wtfda.org Webmaster: Tim McVey Forum Site Administrator: Chris Cervantez Editorial Staff: Jeff Kruszka, Keith McGinnis, Fred Nordquist, Nick Langan, Doug Smith, Bill Hale, John Zondlo and Mike Bugaj Website: www.wtfda.org; Forums: http://forums.wtfda.org _______________________________________________________________________________________ OCTOBER 2014 TROPO…YAWN throwing of objects. I’ll work on the new version of Word when I get the time so I can find out where in I know I’ve been really busy this month so I may the world they hid the features that were out in the have missed them, but have there not been any open on Word 2003. And Les…do you want to reports of good tropo around anywhere during the borrow my Office 2003 disk? month of September? There sure hasn’t been any in this neck of the woods. I’m not talking about the THE IVIEW 3500STBII 100-200 mile long trop but the good stuff out over 300 miles and more. Where is it? I took Scott Fybush's advice and bought an We all know that Mr. Phelps does very well at iView 3500STBII (this is a newer version of the one his location in Kentucky and so does Jeff Kadet in Scott mentioned, having the "II" at the end). I just IL, but when Roy Barstow on Cape Cod is quiet, got it this week. I disconnected my normal TiVo and then his silence is worth noting. gave it a try. I plugged in a PNY 4GB USB stick I What a whacked out year it has been so far in had laying around. I recorded some of these 2014 for TV or FM Dxing. That’s my take on the catches and plugged it into my computer after. It situation, for whatever it’s worth. If you disagree, saves the recording to attached storage untouched tell us. as the broadcast MPEG with no re-encoding, just like my TiVo. It puts it in the .MTS container file MEMBERS AND MORE and I am able to play it using VLC Media Player and Windows Media Player! It has also been a slow month for renewals. The box seems pretty sensitive and I am During the period from August 18 through Sept 19 impressed! I put it in manual tune mode and go we received renewals from Randy Miltier, Roy directly to an RF channel. It shows the actual Barstow, Ronnie Rader, Saul Chernos, Tommy frequency in MHz and a signal meter. Since Philly Adair, Paul Swearingen, Steve Walko, Glen was coming in, I purposely went to channels such Hauser, Wolfgang Schneiter and John Tudenham. as 32 to see if I could decode WPSG and turned Thank you for your support of the WTFDA. the rotor. The signal meter is very responsive and I’d like to thank Les Prus for the cheat sheets he updates quickly, however it is a black screen while sent me for MS Word 2013, which I’m sure is just in this mode. Once you see a signal, you press as screwed up as Word 2010. It seems we both are enter and it will show you a list of the sub-channels in the same boat. I got a new computer and he had with PSIPs for a couple seconds, then it goes to to get a new computer. Les writes: “I had a live TV. catastrophic hard drive failure on my old Dell I bought this primarily so I could bring it with me running Office 2003 and XP and I couldn’t get it to while traveling and record TV in other markets. It boot. So I eventually got a new desktop (Dell) with seems like a great little tuner! The ability to record Windows 7 and Office 2013 and know exactly what to a USB thumb drive or portable hard drive and you’re going through. Cheatsheets help but it’s still easily play it on a PC is just plain awesome. I didn't a hard slog to catch up with 10 years of experience buffering because the stick was too changes…seems like 30.” slow to read/write as Scott had mentioned, at least So Les sent me 10 pages of documentation on with this stick. - Rich Cabral September 5th Word 2013 and a few pages on Windows 7. As for me, I put Word 2003 back on this new And that’s all for this month. See you in computer so that this column could be finished in a November, we hope! -Mike reasonable length of time with little or no cussing or OCTOBER 2014 ··· 2 ··· THE MAILBOX Douglas E. Smith TV 1389 Old Clarksville Pike Pleasant View, TN 37146-8098 News [email protected] http://www.w9wi.com October 2014 Abbreviations: AF Applied For (a new station) NW New station on the air Aux Auxiliary (backup) transmitter PA Proposed Amendment CC Callsign change PC Power (and/or tower height) change on the air CL City-of-license change PG Power change granted CX Canceled PR Power change requested DC Converted to DTV RA Returns to the air DCC Digital Companion Channel QC Channel (?frequency??) change on the air NS Granted flash-cut to DTV QG Channel change granted DCC DE License/permit deleted QR Channel change requested DR Requests flash-cut to DTV RE Reinstated (previously-dismissed app.) FC Programming (?format??) change ROA Request of Applicant FTP Failure to Prosecute SI Off the air (?silent??) GA Granted amendment (to table of channel STA Special Temporary Authority allotments) LC License to Cover XC Transmitter site changed MX Mutually Exclusive XG Transmitter site change granted NDA Non-directional antenna XR Transmitter site change requested NS Permit granted for new station lpdtv Low Power Digital TV DG Granted conversion to DTV DRT Digital Replacement Translator News: (full-power analog stations in bold face; LPTV and translators in regular type; full-power analog stations in bold italics; low-power analog stations in regular italics) Arizona Littlefield 30 KZVE-LP DR 15kw, 36-29-22/ 113-55-14 Guam Prescott 14 K14HC PR>1.8kw, 34-29-25/ Dededo 22 KEQI-LP DR 1.95kw, 13-29-21/ 112-32-02 144-49-41 Tucson 9 KGUN-TV PR>36.5kw, 32-24- 55/ 110-42-51; amendment to correct coordinates Yuma 39 K39KW XR 32-38-31/ 114-33- Puerto Rico 37 Juana Diaz 45 W45DI PG>15kw, 18-09- 15/66-33-15 Ponce 26 WUSP- XG 18-09-20/ 66-33- LD 16 Arkansas Hot Springs 14, KQPS-LD PC<6kw, 34-25-26/ 34, K34MO, 93-05-49 USA 41 K41NH Alabama Montgomery 31 WNCF PG>478m, 32-08- California 57/86-46-43 Cloverdale 13 KZHD-LD CC from K13ZR Opelika 30 WLGA PC 500kw/536m Eureka 35 K52FK DC from 52, 15kw, 40-43-36/ 123-58-27 Fresno 27 KJKZ-LP DC 15kw La Jolla 11 K35DG DR from 35, 300w dismissed. Will flash- cut on 35 instead. Alaska Los Angeles 36 KNBC NS 43.5kw/424m, 34- Anchorage 45 K45HQ DG 710w, 61-09-41/ 11-48/ 118-15-30 149-51-19 (aux) OCTOBER 2014 ··· 3 ··· TV NEWS Palm Springs 29 KPSG-LD NW 1kw, 33-52-00/ 116-25-59 (OTA Broadcasting) Redding 4 KVFR-LP CX San Jose 36 KICU-TV NS 470.5kw/639m Idaho (aux) Lewiston 18 K18LH PR<1.16kw; NW 6.4kw, 46-27-03/ 117- 02-47 (Mountain Licenses) Lewiston 47 K47BW CX Colorado Durango 38 K38JD CX Fort Morgan 20, K20KE, PR>10kw, 40-12-38/ 25 K25LA 104-12-52 Grand Junction 30 K30IU CX Illinois Mount Vernon 11 WPXS PA from 21, 160kw/208m Rockford 47 WYCH- NW 100w, 41-53-24/ LD 89-08-27 (Hispanic Family Christian Network) Delaware Dover 5 WMDE NW 10kw/144m, 38- 57-17/76-05-35 Indiana Fort Wayne 16 W16CU PG>5kw Wolcott 30 W30DI PC>6kw Florida Wolcott 33 W33DE PR 4kw, 40-45-55/ Fort Myers 50 WINK-TV NS 1.6kw/43m, 26- 87-03-06 39-05/81-51-20 (aux) Jacksonville 41 WPXJ-LP CX Live Oak 20 W20EA NW 6kw, 30-13-06/ 82-59-25 (King Forward) Miami 43 WDGT- CC from W43AD Kansas LD Manhattan 32 K32HB CX Naples 45 WXCW NS 1.6kw/43m, 26- Topeka 16 KAJF-LD PG<6kw; NW 39-05/81-51-20 (aux) (Stephen Claassen) Panama City 19 WIDM- PG<6kw Topeka 25 KCKS-LD PC<4kw, 38-58-34/ LD 95-48-34 Port Charlotte 27 WBKH- XG 26-55-19/ 82-02- Topeka 26 WROB- XC 38-58-34/ 95-48- LD 49 LD 33 Wabasso 33 W33DB PR<6kw Louisiana Georgia Baton Rouge 39 WBXH- DR 8.8kw; DG Athens 12 W12DO XG 33-44-57/ 83-50- CA 30 Athens 22 W22DS NW 6kw, 33-46-50/ 82-53-15 (Madison Ave.