TV
DX
Photos
"It's All In the Timing" - Johnny Carson
***1500+
TV DX Photos by Channel
seen
from Macomb, IL Since 1983***
Logbook
of 2000+ TV Stations seen from Macomb, IL since 1983 in Excel sorted by:
channel
- callsign
New
Analog TV Loggings In 2001-2006
***Most Distant DTV Scans***
WBRA-DT-3 Roanoke, VA
611 miles by E-Skip
the rest are by tropo
KDFW-DT-35 Dallas, TX
646 mi 
KDAF-DT-32 Dallas, TX
646 mi
KFWD-DT-51
Ft. Worth, TX 646 mi 
KSTR-DT-48 Irving, TX
646 mi
KXAS-DT-41 Ft. Worth, TX
646 mi KERA-DT-14
Dallas, TX 646 mi
KTRK-DT-32 Houston, TX
800 mi
KTXH-DT-19 Houston, TX
800 mi
KTMD-DT-48 Galveston, TX
800 mi
WJHL-DT-58 Johnson City, TN
528 mi
WSB-DT-39 Atlanta, GA 575 mi
WAGA-DT-27 Atlanta, GA
575 mi
WIAT-DT-30 Birmingham, AL 526 mi
KSBI-DT-51 Oklahoma City, OK
508 mi WPXA-DT-51
Rome, GA 523 mi
WVTM-DT-52 Birmingham, AL
528 mi
KPNE-DT-16 North Platte, NE
551 mi
***TV DX
Equipment***
the overguyed 80' Rohn 25G and 47' 20G
the screened 7 foot Channel Master UHF
dish
the screening is 1/2" hardware cloth
with UV resistant cable ties
Screening helps improve directionality,
front-to-back, and gain on the higher UHF channels
an RDX Labs pre-amp and 1/2" aluminum hardline
are used
E-Skip Antenna
15' 7" long vertically polarized
Channel Master 1110 up 12' with 10 degree tilt
The mast is a wheelbarrow handle and the
2 supports are fiberglass.
The coax is guided out the back using ½
of a hula hoop.
The antenna is vertically polarized to attenuate
horizontally polarized stations
received by groundwave
It is only 12' high to also attenuate groundwave stations.
The 10 degree tilt upwards may or may not
help improve E Layer reception.
a horizontal CM 1110 up 47' is used for tropo
RG-11 coax and Winegard AP-8700 pre-amps
are used on both
A Zenith for each lo-band channel during E-Skip openings
A Hauppauge WinTV-D card in a Windows XP
computer is used for DTV reception.
Also an RCA ATSC11 HDTV converter box to
a 60" Sony HDTV monitor.
An ICOM R7100 VHF/UHF communications receiver
with analog video adapter,
and an ICOM IC-756 Pro II ham transceiver
are also used.
last updated July 6, 2007