10-01-16 11:55 Mike Powell wrote to Ed Vance about Doctor Who   
   Howdy! Mike,   
      
    MP> @MSGID: <57F0343C.9198.drwho@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    > Digital TV works fairly fine when the Weather is calm, but during storms   
    > it acts different than a Analog TV signal did.   
      
    MP> Ed,   
    MP> Yeah, and over a distance, like Louisville to Frankfort, or even   
    MP> Lexington to Frankfort, the digital signals deteriorate so badly they   
    MP> are usually unwatchable.  I used to be able to pull in all Louisville   
    MP> stations, all Lexington stations, and even one from Cincinnati.   
    MP> Ironically, when they first went digital, some of the stations were   
    MP> available because they were on UHF (the analog was still using their   
    MP> VHF "spot").  Now that analog is gone on those VHF stations have gone   
    MP> VHF for digital, I have no TVs that pull anything via antenna.   
      
   I remember Tom Walker (in the Windows 95 echo) saying that His reception   
   changed for the worse when the TV Stations started sending out Digital TV   
   signals.   
      
    MP> From what I can tell, digital was no real improvement for most of us at   
    MP> all. The only thing it allowed was for the government to narrow the   
    MP> band used by TV so that they could sell the remainder for other uses.   
      
    > WBNA TV 21.4 has the Retro TV Network, and currently I'm watching the   
    > Doctor Who shows with the Third Doctor for one hour Monday- Friday.   
      
    MP> There used to be another subchannel network there in Louisville that   
    MP> also carried the older 30-minute episodes.  I can't remember which   
    MP> network it was, though.  I happened to see it on TV while visiting   
    MP> relatives up there a year or so ago.  It was not Retro TV but a network   
    MP> I had not heard of.  It was the first time I had seen episodes from any   
    MP> of the "original run" series, and they were pretty good.   
      
    MP> I keep my eyes out just to see if any of the other subchannel networks   
    MP> we do get here on cable (Me, Antenna, and one other) carry Dr Who but,   
    MP> so far, if they do I have missed it.   
      
   I could look at those Networks schedule to see if they show any Doctor Who   
   shows.   
      
    > One thing I've noticed when the titles for the Third Doctor are shown at   
    > the Beginning and End of the show is that as the colored lines are   
    > changing shape, at one point the shape looks like a Storm Trooper   
    > Helmet briefly.   
      
    MP> They may very well do so.  Over the years, they have probably had some   
    MP> characters that look like a Storm Trooper.  I am not sure what the   
    MP> early Cybermen looked like, for example.  :)   
      
   I didn't mean a Actor, I meant the Graphics in the background when the Title   
   and Credits are shown at the beginning and end of the Third Doctor Who shows.   
      
   Saturday, I called WDRB and left a message that I was seeing a show that is   
   being shown on their 21.1 channel, on the 21.4 channel at the time Doctor Who   
   was listed in their schedule on their website.   
   I suppose someone flipped the wrong switch in the Control Room at the station.   
      
    > If You can watch WBNA in Frankfort, KY, see if You notice what I 'think'   
    > I'm seeing when the show starts up.   
      
    MP> Actually, I know I said I used to be able to get "all" of the   
    MP> Louisville TV stations, but WBNA may have been one I never did get.   
    MP> That, and Channel 24.   
      
   I get both of those Channels, but don't watch much TV at all.   
      
      
      
      
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