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The Worldwide TV-FM DX Association Serving the VHF-UHF Enthusiast VHF-UHF DIGEST E-ZINE VERSION OCTOBER 2002 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. The WTFDA is governed by a board of directors: TOM BRYANT, GREG CONIGLIO, BRUCE HALL, DAVE JANOWIAK AND MIKE BUGAJ. MEMBERSHIPS ENDING IN OCT 2002 CONTENTS Check this list. This is your last issue unless you renew for another year. Page Two Robert Delaney Keith Short Mailbox Edward Sirovy Larry Weil Satellite News… George Jensen Steve Branch Jeff Kitsko TV News…Doug Smith Eric Nagel Chris Carter FM News … Steven Wiseblood Mituhiro Hukunaga Western TV DX…Victor Frank Southern FM DX…John Zondlo WTFDA membership stands at 276 as of 7/22/02. Eastern TV DX…Matt Sittel Mail your renewal check to WTFDA, P.O. Box 501, Northern FM DX…Keith McGinnis Somersville, CT USA 06072 today! Photo News…Jeff Kruszka Special Announcement Editors and Addresses The 2002 WTFDA In spite of the poor E skip season, we still TV STATION have some great DX for you in this issue. In GUIDE some places the poor skip season was Yes, it’s still available! replaced with a good tropo season. Rick Help us sell them all! Shaftan has some great TV DX loggings to Just $23 US will buy Illinois and Iowa in early September so be sure you one. Mail your to check out Matt Sittel’s column. Don’t forget check or money order to check page 34 for the announcement of our today. Make it payable new WTFDA convention co-ordinator and to Dave Janowiak and information on next year’s WTFDA convention. mail it to John Ebeling, 9209 Vincent Avenue S., Bloomington, MN Enjoy this issue of the VHF-UHF Digest! 55431-2157. http://fmdx.usclargo.com/tvg.html We’ll Give You The Shirt Off Our Backs If you’ll just send us $12.00! We have some WTFDA Convention 2002 T shirts for sale and you can get one if you act now! Just send a check or money order for $12 payable to Dave Janowiak and mail it to WTFDA, P.O. Box 501, Somersville, CT 06072 and we’ll send you one. Don’t forget to tell us what size you want. Currently in stock have L and XL sizes. This offer ends 12-31-2002. Place your order NOW! P.O. Box 501, Somersville, CT USA 06072 MIKE BUGAJ [email protected] OCTOBER 2002 be a good location for Dxing if you live on a mountaintop. Welcome to the Mailbox for October. E Also we have a new member living in skip is finished for the year and we might Havana, Cuba. Jesus Esperale is his name have some tropo hanging around and he’s receiving the paper VUD. We’ll have depending on the weather. All in all though, more from Jesus in a bit. Thanks to the following folks for staying it’s time to find your ice scraper and your around for another year: Jim Paige(MI), Steve heavy jacket unless you happen to live in Sprachman(NY), Ron Wing(KS), Mike some warm climate like perhaps Phoenix or Friedel(TX), Doug Smith(TN), Paul Sarasota. Swearingen(KS), Dennis Smith(CA), George Although I didn’t make it to the Hamer(NY), Jim Renfrew(NY), Jeff convention in Oklahoma City, I did manage Lehmann(MA), Charles Tumosa(MD), to make it to Buffalo, NY, on the 8th of William Lindsay(WA), Bob Smolarek(NJ), September to a get-together hosted by Bob Wolfgang Schneiter(CA), Glenn Hauser(OK), Cooper. I have corresponded with Bob James Snow(GA), Melvin Dishong(GA), FJ quite a bit over the past couple of years Issard(ON) and Howard Fountain(CA). Thank and it was an honor to meet him in person. you much! Bob gave me huge binders full of copies of Here’s a note from our new member from Havana: “ Hi my friend, about my experiences every DX Horizon magazine printed except on the TVDXing here. Since I was a child I the first issue (and if you happen to have used to pick up many far distant tv channels that first issue, Bob wants to know because here in my area. For example: The months of he wants to make a copy of it for his May, June and first half of July, is a good time library). We also have copies of Bob’s TV to pick up far distant VHF lower channels DX logs from Oklahoma City and copies of coming from any states east of the Mississippi TV Horizon Magazine. river, and also from Texas, Kansas, Louisiana, I arrived there about 1:30pm and by that Arkansas and at times ( not so usual ) time everybody else had moved out of the Oklahoma too. heat into the house. It was nice to see That’s the time to pick up them all. There Dave Nieman, Frank Merrill and Bob are years that are better for the tv signal Seybold one more time and it was great to reception than others. Texas is a good place to get signals from. Here is always a tv channel meet Jeff Kadet, Guy Falsetti (and from Texas trying to “come in”, at times fighting amazingly he looked like I thought he would vs another channels may be from Tennesse or look like), Rich Wertman and Jim Renfrew. somewhere from the Eastern US on the same I had hoped to see Saul Chernos again but frequency. It is amazing to notice on how long the brakes on his car weren’t co-operating. a signal has bounced to reach here, really. Of I also was looking for Scott Fybush but course, the signals come with many fadings, Scott later emailed that he had come down although there are some times that some one with something, most likely contagious, and becomes very clear as local for some minutes. decided to stay home. One of the tv channels that are always It was a nice afternoon and evening. trying to say his Good Morning to me , or his Nobody had any complaints and we had Good Afternoons, are: KRGV channel 5 some good DX conversation. I hope to see Weslaco, South Texas near the Mexican everyone again! border. The hours of the day for me to have them appearing on my tv are , from 8 to 11 in MEMBERS AND MORE the mornings ( the best time ) and then, from 3 to 6 or 7 pm before dusk. There are Glancing into our stack of stuff this many channels also coming from Illinois month we find another new member! and Missouri. For example: KSDK channel 5 St Louis Missouri is almost Welcome to William Hein of Topsham, VT. familiar to Topsham is in northern Vermont and could me, also: KYTV channel 3 Springfield Missouri, studio in the Commercial National Bank which also identifies itself as KY3. This station building (now National City Bank). has kept its identification logo design without Kinescope recording is a type of film that changing for many years. I think that the most some television stations use to broadcast interesting of it all, is that I have always picked network programs several days after they are them up using a local conic tv antenna which recorded when no connection with the network by the way has not been, at times, on very exists. Mueller said WEEK-TV will "make every good conditions...so it has always been effort" to get kinescope recordings when the amazing to me to be able to get them. station goes on the air, and that the company I live in the City of Havana, and not near plans to build a studio at 2907 Springfield Road the coast. Outside the city the tv reception in East Peoria, along with a 457-foot might be better of course, especially on the transmitter tower. He said only when this is coast. done will the station be equipped to broadcast Central Cuba is a good region to pick up them "live" programs. too, including the City of Cienfuegos on the (The new WEEK-TV station went on the air south central coast of the country. at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 1, 1953, in black I would like to share this note with another and white on Channel 43, but not in the TVDXers. Have a nice day my downtown bank building radio studios. The friend. station had already been built on Springfield Road in East Peoria.) ONE OF THE EARLIEST UHF STATIONS This from Wayne Johnson on the WTFDA list: “Hey Guys, Here's an article that came out in the Peoria Journal Star about our local TV Station WEEK. It was originally on Channel 43 but now is on 25. I didn't realize that it was one Jeff Kadet (L.) and Bob Cooper (R.) of the first UHF licenses in the country. 1952: Aug. 29 The owners of radio station A DIFFERENT LOOK? WEEK yesterday afternoon got permission to broadcast television programs in Peoria, and You might find a slightly different look to the the station said today it hopes to be on the air VUD this issue as we try to figure out a way to by the make pictures and graphics look a little better first of the year. than they have been. We’ve changed the The station is the first in the area to receive a process just a little in the hope that we can TV permit and will broadcast on ultra high lighten up the photos a bit more.