No signal from KSBW Ch8
William Honigs
the Salinas-Monterey market once KNTV ch. 11 becomes NBC. for the San
Francisco market. Yes, SOL......
"Michael Dix" <mj...@best.com> wrote in message
news:3944447F...@best.com...
> Their web site says they put in a more powerful transmitter
> closer to Salinas, but I cannot see Channel 8 (with
> rabbit ears) at all, in my SJ Cambrian location.
>
> It used to be a local station for me.
>
> Should I get a roof antenna, or am I SOL?
>
> I was hoping to watch the Lakers-Pacers today.
>
> Mike Dix
>
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Kevin McMurtrie
>Their web site says they put in a more powerful transmitter
>closer to Salinas, but I cannot see Channel 8 (with
>rabbit ears) at all, in my SJ Cambrian location.
>
>It used to be a local station for me.
>
>Should I get a roof antenna, or am I SOL?
>
>I was hoping to watch the Lakers-Pacers today.
>
>Mike Dix
I just got back from vacation and noticed that 8 went from being very
strong to fuzzy. The signal isn't any weaker than the SF stations but
two nearbly FM stations overload my amp when I raise the rabbit ears.
Maybe wiring an FM trap inside the amplified antenna will help me.
j...@drdunc.com
: Likewise my location on a 900 ft. ridge near Scotts Valley previously
: received great reception on 8.
I may have gotten into this late, but KSBW moved its primary
transmitter site back to Fremont Peak above Salinas. Throughout
most of the nineties, KSBW had been trying to reach the
Santa Clara Valley from a high tower in Mt. Madonna Park.
When KSBW moved back south, the signal in Scotts Valley
(where I live too) became much weaker. Personally, I
welcomed the change because with a big antenna and mast
mounted preamp, I can now get channels 7 and 9 from
San Francisco. With a rotatable outside antenna you
should easily be able to get KSBW in Scotts Valley.
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Mike Ward
Rall) wrote:
>Likewise my location on a 900 ft. ridge near Scotts Valley previously
>received great reception on 8.
>
>Now my set with an indoor antenna gets nothing. My roof antenna gets
>a weaker signal with ghosting in all directions.
>
>I complained to the station (as you should), for whatever good it will
>do.
I don't believe there's much that can be done about this. It's my
impression that the tower move for KSBW/8 was done on purpose -
because they had to move the signal farther away from now-co-owned
KCRA/3 in Sacramento.
The FCC does now allow "duopolies" in the TV world, but Hearst-Argyle
already owns two stations in the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto market
(KCRA/3 and KQCA/58) under these new rules. I don't know if that
would affect the overlap between the old KSBW signal and KCRA.
Mike
Scott D Fybush
What is KSBW getting out of this move in exchange for losing
the South Bay viewership?
Were there signal problems in KSBW's primary market (the Monterey
Bay area) that have been resolved by the move back to the
southern site?
Peter Haas (I know, it's TV, not AM)? Anyone?
-s
Peter
>>
I don't know if that
would affect the overlap between the old KSBW signal and KCRA.
>>
KSBW used a DA from its Madonna Ridge site.
Peter
fyb...@world.std.com asks a non-AM question ...
>>
What is KSBW getting out of this move in exchange for losing the South Bay
viewership?
Were there signal problems in KSBW's primary market (the Monterey Bay area)
that have been resolved by the move back to the southern site?
>>
Last time I looked, KSBW was moving analog back to Fremont Peak where it
started, with the thought that their UHF digital would be sited on Madonna
Ridge.
Then they got a change from UHF digital to VHF digital.
When the digital CP came out, it was on Fremont Peak, too.
My guess is, just as KNTV has shown a dramatic increase in primary and
secondary service area with its VHF digital, KSBW would as well.
And that would impact its issues with resepct to KCRA.
Which was apparently why it was using a DA from Madonna Ridge for VHF analog.
Likely, someone from KSBW or Hearst-Argyle will key in when the time is right
(they did last time).
Javier Henderson
> Were there signal problems in KSBW's primary market (the Monterey
> Bay area) that have been resolved by the move back to the
> southern site?
I've an omnidirectional antenna in Salinas, on top of my
house, and prompted by this message I just went and checked the
picture quality on KSBW (I don't watch it much). It looks pretty darn
perfect. I don't recall having signal problems before though.
-jav