WFXT-25A Off-Air?

[Peter Q. George]

Checking the snow bands, I too see no sign of WFXT/Analog 25, here south of Boston.  It seems like quite a few stations are making early exits from analog, namely WGGB/40, WGBY/57, WZMY/50, WLWC/28 (who gave VERY EARLY notice of their early exit) and finally WFXT/25 (maybe).  Slowly but surely, my little Color Watchman is becoming analog "challenged".  I would not be surprised if MORE stations opt out to early shutdown.  True, it all comes to an end some 69 days from now.  I hope the next generation digital tuners can be a little more sensitive than the numb tuners that current exist.  Without some form of an amplified antenna, you have very little chance of getting a solid signal from the existing digital stations.  Ah, how nice it was to just move the VHF "rabbit ears" or the UHF "bow ties" to get a decent picture.  Now, it's the luck of the draw.  But I digress.  With twisted memories of the late Media One's old slogan,  "This is digital, this is the
 way.....".  I can only imagine what the FCC switchboard will be inundated with on February 18th, 2009.    

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
"Scanning the bands since 1967"

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--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Kaimbridge M. GoldChild <Kaimbridge@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kaimbridge M. GoldChild <Kaimbridge@gmail.com>
> Subject: WFXT-25A Off-Air?
> To: "Boston Radio Interest" <Boston-Radio-Interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 10:37 AM
> Since yesterday afternoon, WFXT-25 analog has been off-air
> (or at undetectably low power, up here on the North Shore?),
> though their DTV signal has been fine.  Could this be an
> early analog shut-off?  They *were* at greatly reduced power
> a couple of weeks ago for a few days, but then returned to
> normal.
> 
>      ~Kaimbridge~
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