[Scan-DC] Analog TV still alive (but not well) in DC

[b_thom at juno.com]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:11:48 -0400 "Andrew Clegg" <w4jecom at w4je.com>
writes:
> More than 30 days after the DTV transition, and after the July 12th 
> expiration of the "analog nightlight" program, the following four 
> channels 
> are still broadcasting analog TV in DC, :
> 
> o Channel 6, Hispanic
> > o Channel 23, religious, 
> o Channel 25, Hispanic, 
> o Channel 47, Hispanic, 

> Cheers!
> Andy 

I keep finding those 5" AC-DC protable AM-FM-TV sets tossed out in the
trash. I figure that once everyone has either an ATSC TV or a converter
box, the price of converter boxes will collapse. Stores will be blowing
them out for 99 cents. When that happens, I'll pick up a half-dozen of
the ones that run on a wall wart. In a hurricane, I'll run the box and
the TV off a motorcycle battery.

If I were the czar of the FCC, I would have required that enough NTSC
LPTV stations be left to cover 90% of the population, 95% of the
population, something like that. People would still have access to TV
weather reports while out car camping or during storm emergencies that
knock out electrical power distribution. Last year, I think it was August
2008, we lost power for a while. I pulled out an ancient portable Radio
Shack AM-FM-TV and hooked it up to a motorcycle battery. I was able to
watch Bob Ryan and all the other TV shows. It's a shame that all those
portable radios that pick up TV audio and portable TVs be turned into
nothing but paperweights.

If nothing else, these portable TVs have robust power supplies. GPX TV
wall warts are rated at 12 VDC, 850 mA. The Sony TV I snagged a little
over an hour ago has a wall wart rated at 12 VDC, 900 mA. The GPXs run on
a bank of ten C cells when not running on a wall wart.

But what do I know?

Blair Thompson
KI4BNK
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