[opendtv] Re: 200 Mile 8VSB Reception

  • From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:28:54 -0800

The ducting effect along the Southern California/Northern Baja coast is well
known.  There's a mountaintop just north of Ensenada (90 miles south of the
border) where people with analog cell phones can get native LA analog
cellular (no roaming.)

 

John Willkie

 

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From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mark Aitken
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:00 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: 200 Mile 8VSB Reception

 

Ducting... an Anomaly. Well understood over some bodies of water (some
countries have a schedule, take Kuwait for example...from the island of
Failaka broadcasting to Iraq!).

Pine needles as big as a UHF wavelength???? 15-25"???? Where is this
place???

Mark
the Mark that can often differentiate the norm from the rare

John Willkie wrote: 

At the risk of putting Bob Miller back in the hospital . 

 

(try this with low power COFDM)

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/342324583/in/set-72157594453965824/
(click next to advance)

 

(Cadged from Bob Gonsett's newsletter)

 

John Willkie

 

P.S.  Yet someone else who doesn't know that "OTA is dead" and "8-VSB
doesn't work."  When will they ever learn?

 

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