<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Saturday 08 May 2010 02:59:14 pm Douglas Peale wrote:<br>
> > Unusual to have adjacent channels in use in the same market. This was<br>
> > never done with analog assignments. Perhaps you are picking up stations<br>
> > from 2 different ADIs?<br>
><br>
> I am situated between two markets, 7 & 8 are from different markets.<br>
<br>
</div>That makes sense. Channel 7 may be running a lower-than-normal aural carrier<br>
level due to that situation, or may have been before the digital changeover.<br>
<br>
Adjacent channels would never be assigned to the same market, and I think the<br>
same is true of digital stations as well.<br>
<br>
The makers would have to put decent front ends into their TV sets if this rule<br>
went away.<br></blockquote><div><br>Sacramento, CA has channel 9 (KVIE, PBS) and channel 10 (KOVR, ABC). KVIE moved from channel 6; KOVR was always on channel 10 (both had temporary UHF assignments that we actually received easier). I know there's some funkiness with the VHF channels, but I think 9 and 10 are truly "adjacent"? Their transmitters are within a couple miles of each other (one nice thing here is that all of the major stations are basically in the same direction)<br>
<br>Both come in pretty well with $10 rabbit ears on our new Sony HDTV, but KVIE had some periodic watchability issues with the HDHomeRun until I installed a $30 closeout round VHF+UHF antenna in the attic; it's great now.<br>
<br>Josh<br><br></div></div><br>