SPORTSRADIO! Our Next New WTFDA Members Are Garrett Wollman from Framingham, MA and Steve Rich Jim Thomas Tells You Who's on What in Indianapolis
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AUGUST 2003 ti mes. Shawn is a computer consultant. We're happy to have you all here and hope you all Has everybody had their fill of E skip yet? enjoy being part of the WTFDA. Now, here's the list of all you good people CONTENTS Of course not, but conditions sure seem to have quieted down in mid July, but seem to be heating who paid your dues and decided to put up with up again. Thankfully I did not have computer us for another year: Page Two 2 access during the convention and a few days Robert Williams, IN Mailbox 3 after, but I did hear that there wasn't much in the Ralph Strobel, IN Finally! For those of you online with an email TA FM Report 5 way of Es floating around during that time so we Paul La Fren!ere, MN address, we now offer a quick, convenient and Equipment You Need for TA Reception 7 didn't miss much. Fred McCormack, MN secure way to join or renew your membership The D100 multi-system TV Converter 9 I hope everyone who attended had a great John Zondlo, OK i n the WTFDA from our page at: TA FM Target List 12 ti me. 1 was happy to meet again with the folks I Nick Lombardi, GA TA TV Target List 13 first met last year in Albion and 1 was happy to Mike DeRoo, KS http:/tfmdx.usclargo.com/loin.htmi TV News ... Doug Smith 16 meet more WTFDAers this time. Unfortunately in Ron Purdue, MN Dues are $25 if paid from your Paypal account. Eastern TV DX...Matt Sittel 23 all the chaos I missed a couple but there will Alan Michalek, MA But of course you can always renew by check Southern FM DX...John Zondlo 28 always be a next time. David Flottman, MO or money order for the usual price of just $24. Photo News ... Jeff Kruszka 33 If you happen to be a member without Eric Sundius, AZ Either way, it's still a bargain! Convention Wrap...Soott Fybush 35 internal access (or you're not a member of the Paul Swearingen, KS Western TV dX...Victor Frank 37 WTFDA Topica list) then you've probably don't Rick Lewis, AZ Northern FM DX...Keith McGinnis 44 know of all the Trans Atlantic E skip floating over William Eckberg, It. Satellite News ... George Jensen 63 the North Atlantic during late June and early July. Bill Burrows, PA The skip was absolutely amazing. But never fear David Shapiro, OK because you're going to read about it here. And if George Jensen, MD TV, this type of skip makes your mouth water, you're Calvin Glover, MD H, t Had Enough Es Yeta going to find out what you need to know to hear it Chip Kelley, TX and see it here on this side of the pond. You got Bob Timmerman, IN L ' What a season we are having! This VUD a little taste of it here last month and you'll get Paul Mount, NJ weighs in at 64 pages and we could have the whole meal this month. Yum! James Snow, GA added another ten pages if we wanted to. Michael Parks, WI We've had to scale back FM North a bit. What MEMBERS AND MORE John C. Johnson, MT we didn't use this month will surely be used Bob Smolarek, NJ next month. Frank Aden, ID We have three new members this month. This has been an extraordinary year for Guy Falsetti, NY One of them is James Alexander from Voorhees, Trans-Atlantic TV and FM E skip. We've now Tim Johnson, NM seen that Paul Logan in N. Ireland has heart NJ. Does that name sound familiar with anyone out there, especially those who've been here for Charles Bemth, NY and verified CBAF 88.5 in Moncton, NB. We'll some years? It should. Jim was the first editor of Niel Wolfish, ON try to have more about that next month. Enjoyl Dan Oglethorpe, LA Photo News. If you look to your right you'll see page 26 from the March 1981 VUD, which is, I think, the first Photo News. FM ATLAS #19 By the way, over the years the VUD has Bruce Elving's newest listing of FM had it's share of problems with the reproduction of photos and last month was no exception. It Stations is just $23.00. Send your check seems Jim also had the same problems when he or money order to FM Atlas, P.O. Box 336, was Photo News editor. What we've done this Esko, MN 55733-9413 and keep it next to month to try to eliminate the problem is to your radio or in the glove box in your car. change printers. If the pictures and graphics look better to you this month then hopefully we were successful with the change. SPORTSRADIO! Our next new WTFDA members are Garrett Wollman from Framingham, MA and Steve Rich Jim Thomas tells you who's on what in Indianapolis. If I have all my information station and when. Send your check for correct, Garret is a radio engineer and Steve $12.00 to WTFDA, P.O. Box 501, also works in "the biz". And we should not forget Somersville, Cr 06072 (checks payable to Shawn DeCesari from Providence who we've RENFREW GETS A VERIE PLUS... Dave Janowlak). had the pleasure to talk with on IRC chat many RENFREW GETS A VERIE PLUS... particular frmware "setting" to be in his set top box. will whether We'll let Jim tell you about this. " On July Let me make a forecast n ~ ° ~ ~~Q~~[~~OC~ ~~ C~~~~p~ 14 I received a verification letter for an E-skip you allow me to do so or not!). Somebody with What a crazy summed The UK DXers do h again and estahllsh a new world record) reception of KON, channel 6, Tulsa OK on May far more native intelligence than I will work out 30, 6:22 AM CDT. The letter was sent by how to MODIFY the STB (or N set's) firmware PAUL LOGAN TELLS HIS STORY Next was light music on 88.5 coming up to Gerald Weaver, Asst Director of Engineering. with a new set of instructions, perhaps making 1900 fdlowed by a full ID on the hour from Nothing unusual about that. But, in addition, he the acceptable "error rate" something rrae like 1 There's a lot d discussion going on of this WHCF Bangor, Maine. And that was I -no also sent me a video tape of a segment of the 6 error in 1,000 to still produce a picture - of a sort. amazing reception on the night d June 26th. more doubts. I was literally in a state of o'clock news in wh~h the local news anchors try The present frmware is VERY consumer So I thought I should introduce myself as I shack. The distance from my QTH to Bangor Maine is 2756 miles. And I am confident that to stump the weather guy about the "E Layer, consdous- it stops reception when the number have not posted to the list in some time, but along the Eastern and quote extensively from my QSL letter. Over of data stream errors exceeds a very small regularly read the digests. other stations from were coming in but the open his head with the subject, confusing ducting with number - in recognition that the AVERAGE seaboard frequencies like 95.9 sounded like soup, with skip, the weather guy finally refers to me as the consumer would tolerate virtually no "pixelation" I am located some 30 miles inland from the a number of stations bubbling all over each Einstein who can explain it. They put my wean before he turns off the N set. But you (and I) Atlantic coast d Ireland in the Northern Irish shot photo on camera showing their morning are hardly an AVERAGE consumer when we are county of Fermanagh. There isrit much other. sports guy. They were quite amused by my okt chasing DX. We would gladly accept more blacking me from the WNW and I was in this Here's the final log for what made it through: N set which has knobs and dials, and suggest pixelation if we could reduce the "threshold" of direction that my humble 4 element yogi was when the that in addition to the verification, the station the blue screen switchon a few more dB. pointing Thursday nght Jim Gould in Indiana and a handful of unimaginable happened. 88.5 1815 CAN CBAF Moncton NB yl with should also send me a new N. The female "Radio Canada" id talk about Brazilian music anchor says that my reception of the station is others have the native intelligence to expbre the For years DXers this side of the pond have i n FF better than hers down the street from the firnNVare in STBs and to work out how this discussed and dreamed about a Transatlantic 88.5 1815 CAN CBVG Gospe QC CBC station. My N, by the way, is an old GE B8W "threshold point can be modified - not for your opening. I guess the attraction was the notion English, comedy show, mixing wlth CBAF. model, vintage unknown. Perhaps this is a first, typical and AVERAGE viewer but forthe Roy'sof of openings in which most of the stations Gripe just North from NB. Later very an on-air N verification? Scott, too bad I didnt the world.