Analog TV Stations Still on the Air in 2021 Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2021
- This is a video of a second trip I took to locate some of the last analog TV stations still on the air in the United States. I travel to Elmira, Rochester, and Binghamton to see what's left of NTSC broadcast TV. Stations include WHSH-LP, WBPN-LP, and WXXW-LP.
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No, sadly
Yes channel 29 from Santa Cruz ca and kfvd lp ch 15 daystar Fresno and Kzno lp channel 6 franken fm los angles
I think I might have an analog low power near me but idk I think it’s a Jewelry TV network or something like that from Cleveland, OH
This weekend we are going to. Los angles there’s a franken fm on channel 6 I’m bringing my Sony watchman for the last time
The Franken FM near Washington, DC (WDCN-LP). Technically on Channel 6, but where the audio is actually at 87.70 MHz and a stereo pilot at 19 KHz, just like an FM station.
They DID call the cops. The dispatcher simply said, "that's just the Antenna Man."
Lol is that true?
@@le9038 NO
Haha....very funny....
During your snowy recording of The Simpsons, YT broke into an HD ad. What a difference in quality!
Good luck with the RCA. It hurts when something like that dies. When you tear into it, let the group know picture tube type and other pertinent info. You have a good following of old-timers, and some of us never throw anything away. ;-)
Has that old tv set been recapped yet? 70 year old capacitors need to be replaced with new ones.
Reminds me when I was a kid, I had an old black and white TV in my room in the basement. It had a red outer shell and built in rabbit ears. Pulling in the local channels like nothing. I miss analog TV.
I'm 65 and for the first time i got cable was when I was 31 years old in 1987 and cable hit my Chicago neighborhood. I lived in a basement apartment and spent many a night moving the rabbit ears around-some stations were unviewable. Ironically,I am a cord cutter now because of your channel and many other good folks. Antenna plus streaming plus Blu ray=freedom.
Are you still in the city? When I used to live in Chicago I could never get the digital channels to work . now I'm in the suburbs and it's even worse . RUclips entertains me now
@@danh2134 I am near West'burbs-proviso area(never give more details online)-with a good indoor antenna (coupled with an old fashioned rabbit ears for CBS(12) and 59( actual VHS 7),I get 81 channels.Of course,i have practical line of sight to the tower and it is not as good in summer because of leaves. If only i had a roof top antenna. Good luck to you.
@@PC4USE1 thats pretty good , I'm way out past the airport and more and the only channel I receive is the one showing traffic conditions and playing music . very very grainy
I somehow can get channel 34 even though it's pointed southwest.
@@timbo303official9 whats on channel 34 ?
the last analog tv station here in Dallas shut down on july 31, 2020 and came back on the air 3 weeks later as digital, now airing latv, cheddar, and bein sports extra
I caught a recording of it thinking it had to be disconnected soon, then it stopped a month or so later :-(
Ahh yes, good old KNAV-LP. Many years ago they aired programming from Dallas-based "HOT TV" (History Of Television) which included shows from the 50s and 60s. Would have been perfect for viewing on an old set from that era, natively, in analog -- oh well.
This is so sad they are shutting analog down but I'm really glad you are documenting analog before its demise
they should keep at least one analog channel just for fun :-)
Well in the Philippines they still have analog until 2026
Very original and amazing video series! This is probably the first time I see someone carrying a bunch of old analog TVs across the country just to test the last few analog TV stations that still exist. Great job, Tyler! 📺
Glad to hear that you took my info , and made the trip to Rochester. Had i known you were coming up, you could have gone 5 minutes extra up to Hilton, and checked out my Televes current setup. Ch. 6 Ottawa is no longer analog from the Deseronto , Ontario repeater. However, depending on weather, i can pull in (digital tv) stations: Global TV Toronto out of Peterborough, CBC from Kingston, and even one channel from Watertown, NY. One night, i even pulled in Syracuse and Utica. But, sometimes , the low power channels from Rochester don't come in fully. just like the old analog days.....😉🙄🤣
I'm bummed I missed the analog 6 from Canada. Did it come in well in Rochester?
yes. back in 1980, i watched the USA-USSR olympic hockey game live on CTV. ch. 27 from Peterborough also came in clear . it was fun to see the result of the game, then go to a bar where the ABC replay on tape delay didn't even start. most people were unaware of fact they were not seeing a live broadcast. 🙄🤔🧐
at the time, lived in city, near public market. Winegard antenna , Y shaped, and Alliance Tenna rotator. had the lighted layout dial with north , south, east, west indicators plus marked gradients. boy, do i miss that control box over the compass/digital ones used now.🤮
I remember that phenomenon of how the picture could get very snowy but the audio was still coming in relatively clear. Somebody told me that analog used AM for broadcasting picture, but FM for sound. Which would explain it, as FM is less susceptible to interference by its very nature.
Yes, what you were told is correct.
Analog satellite TV used FM for both audio and video. My relatives had it. It was the clearest picture there was back then, except maybe for laserdisc.
I totally feel you about missing how analog always giving a watchable signal, regardless of your location, Tyler. The digital signal at a doctor's office I took my late friend to was so poor, I decided it was easier to just watch downloaded content on my crappy tablet.
Analog wasn't that clear in cities. It's all the radiation from TV and radio signals crisscrossing everywhere.
I never got the best recordings on VCR when I lived in Chicago. The TV I had was excellent but the reception was poorer than in the country because of too much broadcast interference from all the emitters!
@@AvengerII But digital TV suffers much worse from multipath than analog. While analog would ghost, multipath with ATSC 1.0 essentially raises the noise floor to the same level as the signal and you get a completely unwatchable station.
@@brandonupchurch7628 Oh, I've seen digital go out terribly on satellite TV.
I never had the "pleasure" of paying for satellite TV (I experienced THE BAD SIDE of satellite in my parents' last Ohio home) but I think most of us have experienced digital broadcast going out completely!
I do agree -- usually even with TERRIBLE analog reception, you were getting SOMETHING even if it was "only" black & white reception!
Country or suburban broadcast away from towers, skyscrapers in downtown is generally better than urban reception. Urban reception in my experience was TERRIBLE!
Another great trip Tyler! Please do a part 3 before all the analog is gone forever. I have such fond memories of adjusting those rabbit ears for every channel lol. Keep up the good work😀
You should go to the location you could pick it up to document the shutdown.
it less than a month before analogue tv shutdown (I’m not American ok?)
Gone are the days when I would drive from the San Francisco Bay Area to Las Vegas with a 5" TV on the passenger side floor and a jerry rig antenna of 300 Ohm twin lead wrapped around the sun visor. For that matter, any time I was traveling any distance from home, the TV went with me. What fun! It will never be the same.
You can't even do that in a strong signal area nowadays. As soon as you start moving at all, the multipath interference kills your signal no matter how strong it is. I've tried it in a car with a portable digital TV and was shocked. how did ATSC 1.0 ever get approved as a standard with how difficult it is to get a signal? You never had these problems with old analog TVs.
Years ago (before DTV), I would watch TV, using an antenna made of twinlead, under a fiberglass bed cap.
Driving through the Scottsbluff, NE area, I received Mexican stations on channels 3 (XHBC) and an unidentified Mexican station on Channel 5.
See "Sporadic-E propagation" for how it's (rarely) possible.
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Look up "Early Television Museum"
They're in Hilliard, OH (Columbus suburb), but they have a good website.
@@lordmikethegreat
The powers that be assumed that all television consumption would be inside buildings.
Supposedly, ATSC 3.0 will make mobile television popular.
The ATSC 1.0 system does not work well in motion. Reflections from buildings and other structures interfere with the direct signal.
ATSC 1.0 uses a single signal stream with a very high symbol rate. I've seen ATSC 1.0 while in an automobile in motion (as a PASSENGER).
Only time I've seen ATSC 1.0 that could be watched was when being driven through the Quad Cities area, where the CBS station was actually broadcasting on RF Channel 4. Even it suffered when going across the bridge over the river, likely because the support cables produced multipath.
I've seen videos of from Europe (where COFDM modulation is used) and mobile reception is much better than in the USA.
Still, mobile reception over there has a few dropouts, though it can be watched.
@@1L6E6VHF I hope you split the twinlead to make a dipole.
I needn't look up sporadic E, I logged plenty in VHF-UHF Digest in the WTFDA.
The last low-power TV transmitter I knew of was Channel 10 out of Morehead, Kentucky, that broadcast a daily want-ads call-in show called “Buy a Dog, Sell a Hog”. I haven’t seen any news of it shutting down, and the website is still in operation.
It was channel 10 in Morehead, W10BM, and channel 6 in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, W06BC.
I’d like to know if they’re still transmitting (I just sent a message).
Those were the days of analog tv for sure. I remember those days well especially when when a thunderstorm was brewing nearby. When lightning strikes happened, you could see static all over the VHF picture and hear it through the sound, similar to AM radio during thunderstorms. You could actually gage how bad a storm was just by how loud and frequent the static got. Back in those days, you didn't need to watch what the weather was going to be, just turn on your tv or radio.
Shango066 might be able to get that TV running again. I mean, he does find ancient TV's that have been sitting out in the desert for decades and more often than not can get them running again.
Back in the day I watched The Simpsons many times on a black and white TV back when WOLF was on 38.
I hope the manufacturers will make Portable TV sets with ATSC 3.0 tuners when it becomes the new standard. It would be nice to watch TV on the go again!
They probably will in a few years. It's too early right now.
I think the cell phone manufacturers should wake up and put TV tuners in the phone. I wouldn't care if they were thicker. Put a 6 day battery in them and a pull up antenna. And no I'm not talking about streaming. My phone does have a regular radio on it why not a TV.
Or USB-C or wifi tuners that you could use with your phone on the go.
@@chuckfinley5206 I would like that too. Not a bad idea.
@@lakorai2 they already have the dongles that plug in the power jack. Antenna man has a video on those. But I want one built in.
Tyler, you are a mad man. Keep up the good work. You are informative and entertaining at the same time. I hope to replace my cable with over the air later this year. Thanks.
I can remember as a kid with my lcd radio shack color tv getting close to Nashville and getting HSN myself. I recall the latter specifically while my mother was shopping in JC Pennys. Walking around my my TV and antenna up. I really do miss analog. But ATSC 3.0 gives me hope again.
Man that gives me back memories love your channel a lot man!
This series of video was excellent. If you make a part 3 and more would be awesome.
You are not alone in doing random signal surveys.
Wow, awesome picture on channel 20 in Rochester. You must have been close to the tower because I imagine co channel interference from CBLT would certainly do a number on it the further away one is. Thanks for posting this part of broadcasting history, hopeful for part 3.
cool video and cool old TV sets!
I wish I had a portable color one with the knobs like what you have there!
I still have VHS of KPDX ch 49 FOX back in the day. The Simpson's. I was into tv at a young age. Our antenna was grand. No snow. Honestly I enjoy your tv antenna episodes. Very educational and up to date.
"Have Antenna Will Travel is the mark of a man"
Great info as always, and good story as well! Thanks!!👍😊
I used to stay at that Super 8 in the early 2000’s on trips to Toronto. The area was already going downhill (and I am from metro NYC!) back then but I see it is even worse now. I would be terrified to leave my car parked overnight.
love this stuff,, thank you for posting
I think it would be cool if analog TV had a resurgence someday, like vinyl records.
Yes!
So awesome you where able to pick these channels up, sadly there are no analog channels left in my area to try and pickup.
Happy Easter Tyler!! Keep up the GRRRREAT work!
Brings back memories of walking to my grandmothers to watch the $6 million man, because we couldn’t get ABC at our house.
Hey, regarding the old TV, maybe one of those RUclips crossover videos is due: see if shango066 would be interested. I love that dude, he knows his stuff and is entertaining. I think the collaboration would be awkward but entertaining (he's a.... different kind of fella)
@soulnull
I would love to see that...
seccond that recommendation on shango!
Great channel on old tv stuff.
My father used to repair those TV sets, but he stopped when he couldn’t get parts. He was from York Pennsylvania. I miss him.
I have good memories of analog OTA TV. When I was a kid, I had a 5 inch Jeep camping TV. It picked up WCDC-19 and WRGB-6, which I watched all the time, even though my parent's cable TV had more channels at the time. There's a certain charm with these old TVs.
Good thing this video was not an April Fools joke.
Didn't grow up with analog TV (was born in 2003, long after analog was the standard. I was only like 5 when the re-pac came along.) but i still find it interesting.
I really love this series, and appreciate all of your hard work to document analog TV before we all have to say goodbye to it forever!
Even though me and my family don't use antennas it's still pretty cool to see analog tv stations on old tv's
Please make a part 3
I love these vids!!!
Thanks for watching!
I live in the Binghamton area & still use WBPN while working on vintage tv's. In the analog days with a 4 bay uhf antenna in my second story bedroom I could get channels 16, 22 & 28 (Scranton/Wilkes Barre) if I had that antenna at a certain height. Turn to the west I could snag channels 18 & 36 from Elmira. In the summer dx'ing on the vhf band. No more with digital....takes all the fun out of it. Enjoy all your videos Tyler, keep up the good work.
This was awesome still good to see the old analog signals. Sign me up for part 3!!!
Thanks for watching! Be sure to share this video. I need a certain amount of views to make it worth wild to plan a third trip.
@@AntennaMan That's not a problem I usually do a text message blast to my friends and family with every video
If the Low Powered Analog T.V Stations don’t do as they’re told and stay on the Air after July 13 this year That would make a very interesting Part 3 RUclips Video??
I’d like to see a 3rd video on analogue tv but that would really depend of course on your time or where else you could pick em up. I’m sure there are more around different states. Ps loved the old analogue signal of the Simpson’s. That would have brought back a lot of memories for a few ppl who watched it back in the day
I live just 5miles sw of chicago il. I also have an antenna and never have paid for cable. I receive one analog station on number 6 it's a combination whether and traffic and oldies radio broadcast.You have made my day with the knowledge it will soon end.Thanks kill joy I will always remember your informative vlog?
Yes, Me-TV FM will be off analog 6 by July.
RIT is in Rochester, they probably figured you were doing some technology experiment, I've seen it a few times.
They should make 2 through 6 analog-only.
Yes they should. They're not really used anyway
That makes so much sense. The only digital channel I have trouble getting is in that range.
Ultimately I expect to see consolidation of adjacent TV markets with surviving stations getting more power to cover a wider range. Although the giant markets such as Chicago and Detroit would remain limited in viewing area, I can imagine consolidation between South Bend and Fort Wayne (northern Indiana) markets, Grand Rapids and Lansing markets, and Dayton and Cincinnati markets. This would solve the problem of 'excess' TV stations.
Most TV stations are owned by a relatively-small number of companies (the networks themselves, Tegna, Sinclair, Scripps, Hearst, Gray.... the original founders of TV stations, often a newspaper or some other visionary business owner sold out long ago. ..
So neat
Good call on avoiding the Super 8 at Rochester! I really enjoyed your video Tyler. Yeah I miss analog, but.... digital TV is so much better quality!
I honestly miss analog TV!
You were right on the money again. I just rescanned after the big channel redo on the 29th. I now have 96 digital and 0 analog. I added digital ones and lost a dozen Vietnamese and home made religious stations. The ones that the volume doubled on and the picture was enlarged are all gone now.
I imagine that when the last analogs shut down, very few people will miss them. Like having a funeral and only two people show up. One more link to the past gone.
I don't watch TV at all as I detest all of the programming, but this video is really cool. 😎👍Right now I'm listening to 1610 Khz on the AM dial. I believe it's a Canadian station.
I picked that station up one night in Jackson, Mississippi - confirmed it over the web (same audio stream) which is mind-blowing. It's antenna signal is directional to the SW, at night.
Not sure where you're from, but I usually listen to CFZM 740 am from toronto down here in baltimore at night. Comes in pretty clear in the truck if I stay away from buildings, lights and things like that. Looks like it broadcasts at 50,000 watts so it shouldn't be too hard to receive from this half of the country if nothing else is occupying that frequency. I'll have to try 1610 after dark.
We need part 3!
A couple of things... At 2:40, I drove under that sign many times going up to the Rochester area when my daughter lived there. Second, as for restoring the old TV, have you checked earlytelevision.org? They have a monthly Zoom meeting and are a resource of knowledge and parts for restoring may old TV sets...
Please do a part 3!
I can't anymore. Analog TV in the US is gone forever
When I grew up we had a big Finco Vee log antenna it was about 18 ft long & 15 ft off the top of the roof! it picked up channels across lake erie in London Ontario! Cant find an antenna nowdays built as good as it was & had a Channel master 6'ft Parabolic for UHF!
Hopefully you make a part 3. Before they don’t exist anymore. I wanna be watching it up to the last second the shut them off.
It depends how many views this video gets since it costs a good $150 for each trip. So far this video is performing a little below average. Maybe it will pick up soonn
@@AntennaMan I know your not talking about stations from Cuba but once in awhile in SW Florida, received some analog signals from Cuba. Since they don't use low band VHF digital in many areas maybe they should make low band VHF for digital, HD FM, and (analog TV in lower populated areas, and rough terrain areas over 100 miles from populated markets) isn't going to need as much spectrum for cellular and for other devices. May still have a old video of Cuba stations. Florida Keys may get the Cuba stations often.
@@AntennaMan Add a picture of a transmitter site and I'll try to post this video on a FB site that discussions broadcasting sites and some engineers do post on this site.
The picture tube may still be good. Remember you also need very high voltage to create the electron beam inside it, so the issue could just be the tube that controls the high voltage flyback.
Wtov9 in steubenville ohio just outside of Pittsburgh broadcasts in analog. I have a little tv in my bathroom i watch every morning while getting ready for work.
good interesting video.
Here in Colombia analog TV still exists. Its shutdown is planned for the end of this year in some regions, and the next year in the others. But the analog reception where I live is very poor compared to 5-10 years before.
Well, back before we got cable, there was no Fox station in the area. There is now (as a subchannel), so I could watch "The Simpsons" if I wanted to, which I don't. I do remember once my cousin said that he said that in the right conditions he could pick up Fox from where he lives and my mother said, "But that's cable!". To us, Fox was only available through cable. I do remember that once our cable got messed up so we had to live with picture quality similar to what you show here. Dad cancelled cable in 2014 when high-speed Internet came to our area. I got a little cheap indoor antenna in 2022.
Speaking of The Simpsons, in 1999, I took a bus trip from Vancouver, BC to Las Vegas. At a stop in Portland, I watched The Simpsons on a coin operated TV. I thought that was so neat. Unfortunately they took out those TVs shortly after that. It was 25 cents for a few minutes of snowy B&W analog TV.
I remember when Milwaukee's original Greyhound Bus station had those!
I watched the Rosie O'Donnell talk show on there while waiting for the bus back to Green Bay in 1997...
wow I remember seeing those!
it was in 2003
@@coolelectronics1759 Thank you for the update. I was in Portland in 2006, 2008, and my last visit was in 2010, I'm sure things have changed quite a bit since then.
Up here in Canada ...we still have some analog. CTV in Northern Ontario along Michigan boarder still has analog stations
This video is my favorite And I create a playlist name analog style from the first one
This fact might bother you:
A pingdingbing preamp I bought picked up really good reception with my vhf powered antenna from rca. I also live close enough to the cbs station itself in chicago to reach it with a flat antenna despite it being vhf. That's about it those are somethings you normally never do actually (buy from pingdingbing, and use a flat antenna for vhf)
I live in Germany, close to the Dutch border. I started building antennas in the mid 1980s, when I found out that it was possible to pick up the TV from Belgium, too. Very soon I had instead of the then normal 5 channels 11 TV channels, later when commercial TV in Europe started, 15 channels! When I built my antenna for VHF 1 (to pick up the transmitter in Liège, Belgium), I could also receive very regular sporadic E. That all ended after 2009, when the last analogue transmitter here was switched off. Now even the VHF-transmitters in the former Soviet Union and Near East are gone, so that all my antennas became obsolete. I wish there were any analogue stations left in Europe...
You should get modern digital TV equipment for your antennas, as I think its 2 different digital broadcast standards, that parts of Europe use, to see if can pick up anything. For in NA where I am in the US, sporadic E has been documented to still cause the digital ATSC signals to be picked up, in some cases hundreds of miles, further away than normal, since after all the antenna itself does not care if the signals are digital or analog, it only cares about the frequencies, as least for the ATSC standard where I am, you can get advanced equipment that will alert you to the trace of a signal, even if it too weak to decode, which can help in aiming the antenna to attempt to get a good enough signal to decode
Cool. I recently moved to Florida. I'm going to have to take a trip to the Keys to try for some Cuban TV stations.
Let me know your results. I'd be very interested to see if you could grab them.
They’re all on digital UHF now. I used to get the analogs during skip when I was a kid.
@@5roundsrapid263 Thanks for that info. I'm surprised they made the switch.
Still a station in Sarasota: ruclips.net/video/4EAtuIHjMwc/видео.html
I grew up with analog TV being born in the mid 70s. Still the only TV stations I get now is over the air. I have a Televes Ellipsis receiving signal from 55 miles away on top of a 35ft pole & I'm happy. I refuse to pay to TV.
I miss analog tv. When you turned on the tv, the picture was there immediately. No lag time to conn et like digital.
Your set featured "instant on".
That meant that your set was running the filament of your picture tube whether you were watching it or not.
That added a little more debt on your electric bill and likely a shorter life in your picture tube.
The FCC's 600 MHz spectrum auction should have been done in rural areas only. The reason is that lower frequencies could travel further, there are not many cell towers and not many TV stations in rural areas. It should not have been done in city/urban areas because there are plenty of cell towers and we need more space for future TV stations.
Please make that part 3.
4:44 @Antenna Man Maybe you should get merch so the people in the park know you mean business.
Pls make part 3 ☺️☺️
It depends how many views this video gets. So far it's kind of flopping at #8 out of the last 10 videos I posted.
In my native Philly I was able to get the ABC affiliate WPVI on FM radio just like any station that uses channel 6.
We have or had an old Philco from the early 60's with the wooden walnut colored shell and semi squarish oval screen. I will have to find out if my sister still has it.
TVs on display these days have no originality or style and virtually appear identical. You could take names and logos off, and many people would most probably incorrectly identify most brand's products. I wish television manufacturers would make thicker sets to accommodate decent speakers, not everyone can or wants to mount a flat panel to the wall. www.gofundme.com/f/lets-get-right-to-repair-passed I would love to buy a modern Zenith flat screen with additional space for better speakers and a wood grain-esque bezel. Even if you would have to mount the included speakers behind grill holes in the bezel upon installation, it would still be better than the atrociousness of the tacky _sound bar_ as the -acceptable- workaround.
I'm waiting for the new ATSC 3.0 standard to go on the air! I was told by a technician for my local PBS station that they planned on mid year 2021 to implement it. We'll see if that happens. I put up a new outside antenna that works great to get all my local channels but unfortunately PBS is north when all the other stations are south so I don't get the station even though it is only 20 miles away! I watched your video where you said PBS is selling out their viewers for money and I think that happened in my area as well since there used to be a PBS tower to the south but the technician told me they shut it down so the only towers close to me are Fort Pierce, FL to the north and Miami to the south! Miami is way too far to reach with my antenna even though it is supposed to be a 100 mile antenna proving what you say about the curvature of the earth and distances being the enemy of a good signal!
You probably know this, but...you can use an antenna that has low or even 1:1 front-to-back gain ratio, if those stations north and south have equal strength where you are.
wonder if you could do a dual antenna setup?
@@coolelectronics1759 I tried using a splitter and another antenna hooked up but it did not work for me. I will wait for the new ATSC 3.0 standard to go into effect to see if that will help. So far they haven't implemented it in my area.
05:23 i also first watched the simpsons in that quality back in the early to late 00s.
Wish some of them would come back to give us more channels
Imagine all the people how for all these decades lived in North America with an extended fm band radio from Europe and/or Asia never thinking they might actually hear something on the extended band in North America. I got a tecsun pl-310et a few months ago which has a 64 - 108 MHz fm band which means it has tv channels 3, 4, 5, 6 audio and I was thinking recently about how cool it would be to be receiving audio from a VCR or something else that uses RF output by touching the coaxial cable on the radio antenna. This would be possible because it uses channel 3 or 4. Unfortunately the last thing I had with RF output stopped working a while back.
I do wish we had extended band FM in the US
@@AntennaMan it’s also got 10 KHZ stepping on FM meaning I can tune into the exact tv channel frequencies
Its less useful now, but about 10 years ago before most of Canada had shut down analog I used to use my Tecsun quite a bit to look for TV channel audio. There are a few videos on my channel of it
I used to watch Simpsons on KDNL-30 growing up in St. Louis. Good times!
I think the goal here in my viewing area is to flash cut ch 6 to 3.0 digital
AND just keep the 87.7 carrier analog for the radio.
Not sure if thats legal ?
87.7 is analog FM radio.
Still in use.
Yes, that is the plan but it's still pending FCC approval.
Makes me wonder if the "Super 8" has mirrors above the beds!
Super 8 has been declining over the years. A lot of them closed.
I need to go to DC soon to record WDCN-LP, hopefully I can find another reason to go soon. As for that RCA Victor TV, someone like shango066 could probably help. I'd offer to try and fix it, but I've only ever restored radios, never any TVs
Hopefully it will leave the air soon. However, I hear that the whole Franken FMs have hired lawyers to lobby the FCC to extend them for yet another 6 months. :/
There is a guy that puts out RUclips videos. He does this RUclips channel where he repairs retro TVs record players and Old tube radios. Look up radio TV phono nut and you can watch his channel. His videos are very detailed. And he has repaired a lot of the cathode ray tube style tvs. He doesn't do anything with the newer TVs at all. So any kind of old retro equipment he'll fix. And then he might even do a RUclips video on it.
Yes! That guy is Shango066 here on RUclips. I love his videos!
@@akronkeith Shango066 and Radiotvphononut are two different channels. They’re friends, though.
@@5roundsrapid263 oh! My bad! Sorry! I will check out his channel, too! 🙂👍
@@akronkeith Everyone knows Shango066 and radiotvphononut.. Love how phononut rants in his videos lol
Magnolia Hospital. Two stations came in strong. News and Food Network. The antenna was two sticks.
I live in Canada and just found out about a low power analog station that is being run in a city about an hour and a half from me. I might check it out at some point considering they have plans to switch to digital sometime before October 2022 when all low power analog stations in Canada have to go off air.
Although it was twenty years ago, there was a WB analog network translator still on the air here. What was funny is that the WB station wasn't HDTV yet because the engineer hadn't had time to get their new HD digital STL set up yet. And why didn't he have time? Because the FCC had a list of things he had to do to that stupid little analog translator to make it compliant even though it would be shut down in a few years anyway.
His temporary hack for the digital station was also hilarious. He set up something to capture video and audio from their analog station off the air and retransmit it in upscaled 1080i. As you would expect, it looked terrible and he apologized many times.
Do you have call letters and location of that station?
@@Juniortvspace It was KWBP (now KRCW) in Portland, OR. The translator was KWBP-LP.
Thanks!!@@scottlarson1548
Memories.
Suggestion to Part 3.... take a visit to that Franken FM station and see if you can sort of do an End of the Era video. Ask them why they are still operating at all at t his late date and who their viewers are.
This makes me feel like wanting to fix my 5.5 B/W TV that i can still use here in Venezuela
Some people travel to see different train types, some people travel to see castles and some people travel to catch analog TV stations. :-)
I wish I had never sold my little Panasonic TV. I had one just like yours back in the 80s. Darn thing was almost 200 bucks new back then.
The Fox repeater is still airing an analog TV signal from the Yuma, Arizona repeater.