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The Magazine for TV and FM DXers August 2015 Brian S. May (CT), Robert Grant (MI), and Steve Rich (IN) DXing digital TV stations from Cincinnati during the WTFDA Convention in Fort Wayne. Farthest catches were Columbus, Lexington, and possibly Cleveland. Photo taken by Ryan Grabow (FL) E-SKIP SEEMS TO TAPER OFF UP NORTH, BUT YOUR VUD EDITOR STILL HEARING IT AS HE EXPORTS THIS PDF FILE GROUP PHOTO FROM CONVENTION ON PAGE 52 The Official Publication of the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association METEOR SHOWERS INSIDE THIS VUD CLICK TO NAVIGATE Delta Aquariids 02 Page Two 25 Coast to Coast TV DX JUL 21 – AUG 23 03 TV News 29 Southern FM DX 11 FM News 33 DX Bulletin Board Perseids 21 DX Bulletin Board 52 WTFDA Convention JUL 13 – AUG 26 22 Photo News 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 PAGE TWO The Page You Turn To for News of the WTFDA and the TV/FM DX World Mike Bugaj – [email protected] August 2015 WELL, THAT WAS QUICK We also welcome Paul Snider to the club. Paul lives in Ontario, Canada. Once again we find some very unhappy DXers out During the period from May 31st through July 14th we there. You can’t blame them. For some of them, the skip received renewals from Mike Hunter (NJ), Mike Lazaro season was as bad as, or worse than, last years season. (NY), Randy Zerr (FL), David Austin (SC), John Johnson You can’t blame them for looking every day at the DX (AZ), Fred Laun (VA), Gray Fulk (NC), Al Tobia (CA), Maps European page and thinking that the huge skip Steve Ponder (TX), Tim McVey (VA), Jeff Kruszka (TX), events that DXers over there were seeing would John Adams (OR), Dave Bright (FL), Gary Siegel (OH), translate to more of the same over here. They didn’t. John Marx (WI), Ralph Strobel (IN), Ed Phelps (KY and Just to recap, the month of May had a few weak, David Sinclair (BC). Thanks everyone for supporting the short-lived openings. The only good parts of June were WTFDA! the last two weeks that included one bang-up opening I don’t think it has been mentioned here but most of on the 29th. Then came July and the FM Es just fizzled us already know that Antennacraft is out of business. out and as I write this on the 24th, I think I can safely say That means those who need a good fringe FM antenna that the season is over. Stick a fork in it. have few choices. They can buy a ham quality fringe FM We can always look forward to next summer. But yagi from Innovantennas or they can buy a Körner next summer may be even quieter, with the Mexican low designed FM antenna kit and assemble it themselves. band analog TV stations long gone. We’ll see. They can build one themselves from plans on the K6sti site or, if all else fails, they can use a TV antenna that MEMBERS AND MORE still has low band elements on it for FM. These days This month we welcome Brett Saylor into the remind us more and more of the early days of DXing WTFDA. Brett lives in PA and wrote on June 21st “I've before commercially designed equipment became wanted to join for some time, but the great Es of the past available. few days finally motivated me. I'm getting my FM setup in place and looking forward to (hopefully) more good Is it too much to hope for just one more big Es event conditions in the coming weeks, and also being involved before it’s gone for good? Maybe, but I’m asking for one with the group.” Welcome Brett! I hope you did well! anyway. See you next month. -Mike AUGUST 2015 ··· 2 ··· PAGE TWO Douglas E. Smith TV 1389 Old Clarksville Pike Pleasant View, TN 37146-8098 News [email protected] http://www.w9wi.com August 2015 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 digital stations in bold face; LPTV and translators Oshawa 22 CHEX-TV-2 FC to CTV in regular type; full-power analog stations in bold italics; Peterborough 12 CHEX-DT FC to CTV low-power analog stations in regular italics) Prescott 26 CKWS-TV-2FC to CTV Smiths Falls 36 CKWS-TV-3FC to CTV CANADA Puerto Rico Caguas 29 WORA – NW 1kw/250m, 18-16- DTS2 32/ 66-05-41; DTS to go British Columbia with existing Mayaguez Revelstoke 7, 9 CHKL-3, DG 80w/1166m transmitter CHRP-2 Ponce 30 WQQZ-CA DC 750w Ontario Bancroft 4 CHEX-TV-1 FC to CTV Brighton 30 CKWS-DT-1FC to CTV Kingston 11 CKWS-DT FC to CTV AUGUST 2015 ··· 3 ··· TV NEWS USA California Big Bear Lake 6 K06MU PR<500w, 33-57-41/ 117-16-47; PG Cathedral City 4 KAKZ-LD PR>3kw, 33-51-59/ Alabama 116-20-02 Montgomery 41 WBXM-CA NW 1.25kw, 32-22-27/ Fort Bidwell 4 K04GB CX 86-17-08; DCC for Indio 8 KVPS-LP DR 3kw, 33-55-26/ analog 5 116-32-38 Moody 38 WBMG-LP DR 500w, 33-33-49/ Monterey 27 KYMB-LD PC>8.4kw, 36-32-18/ 86-28-34; DG 121-37-31 Riverside 10 KZSW-LD NW 15w, 33-57-44/ 117-16-48 (KZSW Television) San Jose 2 K02QX PC>3kw, 37-07-08 / 121-49-57; CL from Alaska Morgan Hill Ekwok 11 K11QW DG Fairbanks 11 KTVF – NW 1.6kw, 64-48-42/ 1001AAJ 147-42-04; DRT for ch. 26 Healy 12 K06LA AF 360w, 63-53-07/ 148-49-38; Colorado DCC for analog 6 Denver 31 KZDN-LD QG from 26; QC Kakhonak 9 K09TM DG Eads 15, K15KG, NS 327w, 38-22-57/ Ketchikan 13 KUBD PR<410w/-108m, 55- 16, K16LF, new-102-58-48 21-00/ 131-40-21; 17, lpdtv,new- (Kiowa Co.); NW amendment from -144m 18, lpdtv, Kivalina 9 K09QZ DG 19 K19KN Lake City 10 K10EA CX Loveland 14 KZDE-LD PC<12kw, 40-34-55/ 105-00-33; CL from Fort Collins Arizona Phoenix 41 KPDF-CD DC 5kw Tucson 9 KGUN-TV PC>36.5kw Tucson 42 KUVE-CD NS 10kw; DCC for analog 38 Connecticut Yuma 39 K39KW NW 15kw, 32-38-31/ Allingtown 28 W28AJ CX 114-33-37 (Good News Danbury 22 W22BN CX Broadcasting Network) Hartford 38 WHCT-LP CX Arkansas Bentonville 14 KHMF-CA DC from 26, 10.05kw District of Columbia Fayetteville 36 KFFS-CD PR<7kw Washington 22 WMDO-CA QC from 8, 1.1kw Jonesboro 38 K38OR PR<2kw, 35-53-25/ 90- 40-25; PG; PC Jonesboro 45 K45MD NW 6kw, 36-03-29/ 90- 56-35 (Sarah W. Stopford) Little Rock 16 KKYK-CD PC>999w Florida Paragould 26 K26MF PR<3kw; PG; NW Crystal River 33 WGCT-LD PR>4kw, 28-09-10/ 82- (DTV America) 29-26; PC>190w AUGUST 2015 ··· 4 ··· TV NEWS Kissimmee 15 WKME-CD XR 28-21-38/ 81-30-40 Layton 16 W16CA PR<15kw, 25-32-24/ 80-28-06 Live Oak 20 W20EA PR<6kw, 30-16-43/ 82-03-57 Indiana Melbourne 48 WOPX-TV PR 1000kw/452m, 28- Evansville 40 WEIN-LD XR 38-01-27/ 87-21-43; 05-51/ 81-07-51 XG; CC from W40DH Ocala 44 W44DS PR>6kw, 29-04-44/ Fort Wayne 45 WFWC-CA DC 2.15kw 82-05-30 Lafayette 23 W23EA XR 41-00-13/ 86-34-59; Oldsmar 48 WZRA-CA DC 15kw (near Winamac) XG; Palm Beach 43 WTCN-CA DC 15kw XC; XR 41-21-29/ 86- Panama City 18 WJHG-TV QC from 7, 1000kw/ 22-03 (near Plymouth) 411m, 30-21-08/ 85-23-28 Lafayette 35 W35CY XR 40-06-14/ 86-30-43; Port Charlotte 27 WBKH-LD PR>15kw, 27-55-53/ XG; XC (Lebanon); 82-24-04 PG>15kw, 40-00-53/ Stuart 48 DC 2.1kw 85-58-58 Marion 22 W22DV PG<10kw, 40-44-46/ 85-10-23 (Bluffton) Salem 41 WRLW-CA PG<6.5kw, 38-21-57/ 85-58-55 Salem 51 WMYO NS 1000kw/ 368m (aux) Georgia Terre Haute 28 W28DZ XG 39-31-37/ 87-00-02; Rome 31 WPXA-TV QC from 51, 600m XC; PR<3kw, 39-48-05/ Savannah 22 WJCL PG 470kw/ 373m, 32- 86-34-23 (Danville) 03-14/ 81-21-01 CX; Wolcott 30 W30DI PC<6kw, 40-02-34/ 86- remains 350kw/436m 27-48 (Lebanon); at old site PG>15kw, 39-53-39/ Valdosta 30 WHDN-CA PR>5kw, 30-48-14/ 83- 86-12-21 21-20; PG Wolcott 33 W33DE PC<6kw, 40-02-34/ 86- 27-48; (Lebanon) PR>15kw, 39-53-39/ 86-12-21 (NW side of Indianapolis) Wolcott 39 W39DM PC<6kw, 40-02-34/ 86- Idaho 27-48; (Lebanon) Boise 25 KFLL-LD XR 43-43-26/ 116-31-37 PR>15kw, 39-53-39/ Boise 43 KIWB-LP DC 15kw 86-12-21 (NW side of Kamiah 13 K13AP DR 10w; DG Indianapolis) Illinois Iowa Champaign 46 WBXC-CA DC 2.5kw Cedar Falls 14, K14PR, PG<6kw; NW 15kw, Jacksonville 49 WEEJ-LD NW 6kw, 39-44-06/90- 21, K21MI, 42-41-09 /92-53-23 10-41 (DTV America); 32, K32KZ, (DTV America); XR 42- XR 39-19-27/ 90-02-27 34 K34MM 29-00/ 92-22-22 Mount Vernon 11 WPXS QR from 21, 160kw/ Cedar Falls 46 K46MK XR 42-29-00/ 92-22-22 172m, 38-36-39/ 89-45- 32; amendment from Cedar Falls 46 K46MK PG>6kw; NW 5kw,