HAS SKIP STARTED YET? for Some, It Ended in June
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The Official Publication of the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association AUGUST 2013 The Magazine for TV and FM DXers IT EXISTS! Sreengrab by Chris Dunne WSBS-DT-3 KEY WEST ! Who will be the first to log it via Es or Tr? Afternoon Storm on the Plains HAS SKIP STARTED YET? For some, it ended in June. For others, it ended in early July For a few, it never even began Visit Us At www.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: Mike Bugaj 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, Peter Baskind, Bill Hale and John Zondlo, Website: www.wtfda.org; Forums: http://forums.wtfda.org _______________________________________________________________________________________ JULY 2013 Alan Michalek, Benjamin Greenlaw, John THAT WAS THE SEASON THAT WAS Johnson, Eugene Hinton and Stan Weisbeck. Thank you everybody for supporting your Just when you thought the skip season was WTFDA! over for the season, an opening comes along at the end of July to prove you wrong. AND MORE… As skip seasons go, this one was pretty rotten. The month of June I never mentioned this, but during the spring was almost completely void I received a phone call from Peter Oprisko, Jr. of skip for many of us. The Old timers will recognize the name. Pete senior month of July wasn’t much was a VUD publisher back in the ice age (early better. There were 3-4 skip 70s?) and I think he was also a board member. openings around the 3rd – I was asked if I wanted some of his old 8th and then nothing until the publishing material because Pete Sr. was 26th, when we were treated cleaning out his basement in preparation for a to 1-2 hours of skip on FM. It almost seems move. I declined. But I did talk later to Pete like the skip gods threw us a bone just to keep Senior himself and found him to be in decent us happy. health for being in his 80s. Pete is out of the Losers this summer are the Northeast and DXing hobby at this point and no longer New England. Winners are those in the west interested. I asked junior if he was interested in who have suffered for years of very little Es in it, but he is not either. I guess age does do that the summer but got some this year. to you eventually. Another old timer by the name of Gary Siegel sent this: “Thanks for all the hard work MEMBERS AND MORE you put in! Asking what everyone else is – where’s the skip and where the tropo (Answer: This month we welcome John Sullivan (OK) it’s in Europe this year -ed.) Where have they to the WTFDA. Welcome, John! And another gone? Europe, I guess (Bingo! –ed) See you in big welcome goes out to Andy Bolin (IL) who the twin cities.” rejoined after emailing me about something And speaking of twin cities, NRC is looking completely unrelated. I think deep down Andy for someone in the WTFDA to spend 20 has always been a WTFDA member even minutes there talking about new advances in when he wasn’t. TV and FM Dxing. Anyone want to volunteer A ton of renewals came in during the period for that? Contact Mark Durenburger at his from 6/13 to 7/18. Because the list is so long, email address of [email protected]. I’ll rush through it. Renewals from Greg Barker, Jerry Bond, Sheryl Paskiewidz, Owen Wood, AND SO Fred Laun, Mike Lazaro, Gray Fulk, David Austin, John Adams, Al Tobia, Jeff Kruszka, It has been a miserable skip season, but Stephen Ponder, Robert Rush, Frank Aden, this looks like it will be one huge VUD. The Tim McVey, David Braun, Steve Walko, John people who did hear and see the DX have Marx, Peter Baskind, Ed Phelps, Gary Siegel, reported. I’m looking forward to this one. -Mike 2 Douglas E. Smith TV 1389 Old Clarksville Pike Pleasant View, TN 37146-8098 News [email protected] http://www.w9wi.com August 2013 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 DCC Granted flash-cut to DTV QG Channel change granted 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 in New Glasgow 34 CIHF-TV-8 DR 3.7kw/ 185m regular type; full-power analog stations in bold italics; low-power Shelburne 28 CIHF-DT-9 DR from 10, 11.3kw/ analog stations in regular italics) 110m CANADA Sydney 36 CIHF-DT-7 DR from 11, 65kw/ 181m Truro 18 CIHF-DT-4 DR 3.5kw/ 192m Wolfville 20 CIHF-DT-5 DR 30.5kw/ 218m British Columbia Chilliwack 31 CHAN-DT-1 DR from 11, 428w/ 286m, 49-04-11/ 122- Ontario 01-38 Hamilton 35 CHCJ-DT PR>390kw/ 110m, 43- Courtenay 25 CHAN-DT-4 DR from 11, 4.45kw/ 13-54/ 79-51-33 381m (relays CKVR) Leamington 34 CFTV-DT PG 1kw/27m Paris 17 CIII-DT QC from 6 Manitoba Minnedosa 9 CKND-DT-2 DG from 2, 30.5kw/ 374m Puerto Rico Carolina 22 W22DR PG>15kw, 18-16-46/ 65-51-12 Fajardo 16 WMTJ PC>178kw Ponce 25 WQTO NW 15kw/ 334m, 18- Newfoundland & Labrador 19-06/ 67-10-49 (DTS Goose Bay 12 CHTG-TV 4.8kw/ 206m transmitter #2 at St. John's 8 CBNT-DT 14.54kw/ 253m Aguadilla) St. John's 21 CJON-DT 482.3kw/ 255m Ponce 38 W18DQ QR from 18, 18-09-00/ I believe these, and five very low-power CHTG relayers 66-59-00; CL from in Labrador, are the only remaining OTA stations in Santa Isabel dismissed this province. 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USA Nova Scotia 3 Alabama California Athens 11 WTZT-CD XR 34-44-13/ 86-31- Alturas 47 K47EH CX 59; amendment to Anderson 38 K38FQ DG 15kw remove power increase Bakersfield 13 KKEY-LP DR from 11 to 1.15kw Bakersfield 21 K21FP CX Birmingham 24 WBXA-CD NS 10kw, 33-29-03/ Banning 5 KRVD-LD DG from 33, 3kw, 33- 86-48-30; DCC for 57-42/ 117-16-47 analog 2 Bishop 20 KVME-TV AF 350w/ -230m, 37- Dothan 23 WDON-LD CC from WRGX-LD 22-32/ 118-23-37 (aux Dothan 41 WRGX-LP CC from WDON-LP Cathedral C. 4 KAKZ-LD PG>900w Enterprise 26 WGEI-LD CC from W26EI Indio 6 KPOM-CA PG<2.8kw, 33-55-28/ Montgomery 17 W17DX NS 15kw, 32-04-05/ 116-36-51; PC; CC 85-56-41 from KKKK- Montgomery 21 WHDK-LD CC from W21DK Indio 11 KVER-LD CC for NS Montgomery 41 WBXM-CD NS 2kw; DCC for Indio 15 KUNA-LD DG 15kw analog 5 Indio 41 NEW-lpdtv AF 15kw, 33-51-56/ Moody 38 WBMG-LP DR 3kw, 33-34-37/ 86- 116-25-58; DCC for ?? 27-15 Los Angeles 12 KTBV-LD PG>1kw, 34-19-27/ Sylacauga 38 W38EI DG 9kw, 33-10-09/ 86- 118-34-50; PC 14-56 Los Angeles 34 KMEX-DT PR>225m (aux) Los Angeles 43 KCBS-TV NW 50kw/ 424m, 34- 11-48/ 118-15-30 (aux) Morongo Valley 13, K13WJ, DG 330w 14, K14AB, 21, K21GI, 40, K40HX, Alaska 48 K48EM Seward 6, K06OR, CX Ontario 29 KFTR-DT PR>225m (aux) 17 K17HL Redding 5 KRDN-LP CX Redding 26 KGEC-LP DC 7.5kw, 40-39-15/ 122-31-26 Redding 32 K32LM NS 15kw, 40-15-31/ 122-05-20; DCC for K50GP Arizona Ridgecrest 42 K42LJ CX Bullhead C. 18 K18CB DR; DG Ridgecrest 59 K59AO CX Clarkdale 36 K36AE DC 15kw Sacramento 41 KMMK-LP CX Cottonwood 16 K16BP DC San Francisco 40 KMMC-LD PR>14kw Cottonwood 51 K51HV CX San Francisco 45 KBCW AF 500kw/ 357m Flagstaff 14 K14KK DC 100w (aux);NS Golden Vly. 11 K11TA CX Santa Barbara 21 KPMR PR<875kw/ 917m, 34- Holbrook 6 KNJO-LP CX 31-36/ 119-58-16; Kingman 14 K14HG DR 800w; DG; DC amendment from 1000kw Lake Havasu City 15 K15CR DR Parks 47 K47GQ DR 750w Phoenix 10 KSAZ-TV AF 20kw/ 513m (aux) Phoenix 13 KCOS-LD AF dismissed; DCC for analog 28 Phoenix 26 KUTP PR>1000kw/ 532m; PG; PC Colorado Prescott 43 K55DB DC from 55, 615w Denver 41 KSBS-CD QC from 52, 15kw, 39- Prescott 45 KPVY-LD CX 43-45/ 105-14-14 Prescott 47 K47DJ DR 1.2kw; DG; DC Fort Collins 24 KMLN-LD CC from K24JW; Williams 43 K43IE DR PC>7.5kw, 40-29-37/ Yuma 6 KVFA-LP CX 105-10-53 Yuma 15 KYUM-LD DG 1.8kw, 32-40-22/ Fort Collins 33 KTDS-LD PG>15kw, 40-32-47/ 114-20-11 105-11-53; CL from Ted's Place Pueblo 16 K16KA XR 37-56-40/ 104-59- 54; XG Arkansas Batesville 15 K15FW CX Bonnerdale 16 K16IP XC 34-17-28/ 93-14-28 Little Rock 9 KZJG-LP CX Little Rock 28 KJLR-LP CX Connecticut Texarkana 32 KLIA-LD CC from K32LA Hartford 33 WFSB NS 20kw/ 221m, 41- 46-27/ 72-48-20 (aux); NW Hartford 38 WHCT-LD NW 15kw; DCC 4 Gainesville 32, W32DT, PR>6kw, 34-23-27/ 83- 48 W48DR 48-26; PG Macon 22 W22EJ PG>5kw Pearson 3, WPNG-, CX 26 WPDW- Delaware Savannah 26 W26EN NS 15kw; DCC for Wilmington 2 KJWP PR>9.36kw/ 311m, 40- W43CK 02-30/ 75-14-11; CL Savannah 46 WXSX-CD DG 7kw from Jackson, Vidalia 20 W20EC NS 1kw, 32-22-58/ 82- Wyoming; PG 12-05; DCC for W14CQ Florida Cocoa 30 WEFS CC from WBCC Daytona Beach 20 WFTV – PR>15kw, 28-51-09/