10-01-16 11:55 Mike Powell wrote to Ed Vance about Doctor Who
Howdy! Mike,

 MP> @MSGID: <57F0343C.9198.drwho@capcity2.synchro.net>
 > Digital TV works fairly fine when the Weather is calm, but during storms
 > it acts different than a Analog TV signal did.

 MP> Ed,
 MP> Yeah, and over a distance, like Louisville to Frankfort, or even
 MP> Lexington to Frankfort, the digital signals deteriorate so badly they
 MP> are usually unwatchable.  I used to be able to pull in all Louisville
 MP> stations, all Lexington stations, and even one from Cincinnati.
 MP> Ironically, when they first went digital, some of the stations were
 MP> available because they were on UHF (the analog was still using their
 MP> VHF "spot").  Now that analog is gone on those VHF stations have gone
 MP> VHF for digital, I have no TVs that pull anything via antenna.

I remember Tom Walker (in the Windows 95 echo) saying that His reception
changed for the worse when the TV Stations started sending out Digital TV
signals.

 MP> From what I can tell, digital was no real improvement for most of us at
 MP> all. The only thing it allowed was for the government to narrow the
 MP> band used by TV so that they could sell the remainder for other uses.

 > WBNA TV 21.4 has the Retro TV Network, and currently I'm watching the
 > Doctor Who shows with the Third Doctor for one hour Monday- Friday.

 MP> There used to be another subchannel network there in Louisville that
 MP> also carried the older 30-minute episodes.  I can't remember which
 MP> network it was, though.  I happened to see it on TV while visiting
 MP> relatives up there a year or so ago.  It was not Retro TV but a network
 MP> I had not heard of.  It was the first time I had seen episodes from any
 MP> of the "original run" series, and they were pretty good.

 MP> I keep my eyes out just to see if any of the other subchannel networks
 MP> we do get here on cable (Me, Antenna, and one other) carry Dr Who but,
 MP> so far, if they do I have missed it.

I could look at those Networks schedule to see if they show any Doctor Who
shows.

 > One thing I've noticed when the titles for the Third Doctor are shown at
 > the Beginning and End of the show is that as the colored lines are
 > changing shape, at one point the shape looks like a Storm Trooper
 > Helmet briefly.

 MP> They may very well do so.  Over the years, they have probably had some
 MP> characters that look like a Storm Trooper.  I am not sure what the
 MP> early Cybermen looked like, for example.  :)

I didn't mean a Actor, I meant the Graphics in the background when the Title
and Credits are shown at the beginning and end of the Third Doctor Who shows.

Saturday, I called WDRB and left a message that I was seeing a show that is
being shown on their 21.1 channel, on the 21.4 channel at the time Doctor Who
was listed in their schedule on their website.
I suppose someone flipped the wrong switch in the Control Room at the station.

 > If You can watch WBNA in Frankfort, KY, see if You notice what I 'think'
 > I'm seeing when the show starts up.

 MP> Actually, I know I said I used to be able to get "all" of the
 MP> Louisville TV stations, but WBNA may have been one I never did get.
 MP> That, and Channel 24.

I get both of those Channels, but don't watch much TV at all.




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