[OKDXA] Speaking Of Digital DX...

[Nelson Derks]

Jerry Chouinard wrote:
> Took me a minute to decipher the DTV acronym - then it hit me.  That's the 
> stuff that out 3 orphaned TVs cannot detect.
Yup... I'm talking about over the air TV through a DTV receiver or 
converter box. Same rules as VHF / UHF in that a hot & humid late night 
or early morning tends to work best, although the reception I was seeing 
last week may have been helped by the cool front that blew through late 
Wednesday. After I posted the spot I picked up two stations out of 
Wichita, KS on Thursday so there was definitely somethin' in the air. No 
mention in the weather forecasts of an inversion, but that possibility 
does come to mind.

Since then I haven't seen much out of Ft. Smith or Wichita, but 34 in 
OKC has been fairly consistent after 10pm or so. Saturday night it was 
about 90% solid copy and I started wondering if maybe the station is 
licensed to Shawnee and a tad closer than the rest of the OKC stations. 
Wikipedia tells me their stick is off of N. Kelley drive in that big, 
big antenna farm on the west end of the Turner...

In any case, all I wanted was one piece of RG-6 coming out of the attic 
that was good enough for local TV / FM. So far the silly little wire up 
there has exceeded all expectations and then some. ;)