What Stations are Broadcasting with Full Power

[sfrazier9999]

As of 5/10/2009, what stations are broadcasting at full power? If they aren't at full power, will that not happen until the analog to digital conversion is scheduled?

Does this mean that will full power that one transmitter for each of the networks is all that's needed for small rural towns like Circleville, Washington Court House, Chillecothe?

It used to be that Channel 10 was the strongest but I find that on Digital that channel 53, 28 and 4 are much stronger than channel 10 as far as digital. I am located about 15 miles south of Columbus and I can't get 34, 10 is only about 35% and the rest are pretty good.

Just some questions I had.

thanks.

[hdtvnewbie]

As of 5/10/2009, what stations are broadcasting at full power? If they aren't at full power, will that not happen until the analog to digital conversion is scheduled?

Does this mean that will full power that one transmitter for each of the networks is all that's needed for small rural towns like Circleville, Washington Court House, Chillecothe?

It used to be that Channel 10 was the strongest but I find that on Digital that channel 53, 28 and 4 are much stronger than channel 10 as far as digital. I am located about 15 miles south of Columbus and I can't get 34, 10 is only about 35% and the rest are pretty good.

Just some questions I had.

thanks.

1. the 53 tower is in Williamsport on US22 so you are closer to that tower than to the Columbus stations.

2. Channel 10 (UHF 21), 28 (UHF 36) and 53 (UHF 46) are all broadcasting at 1,000,000 watts, which is the FCC maximum so I'm wondering if your problem might be the position of your antenna? (Channel 4 [UHF 14) is at 905 kw, but probably will power up to 1,000,000 watts since WPTO has gone off the air).

3. Technically, 6 (VHF 13) has the highest power of them all. Although it has only 57,000+ watts, the signal goes farther on less juice since it's VHF. My understanding, however, is that building penetration is an issue with digital TV, thus having a UHF frequency is preferable to VHF since VHF requires an outdoor antenna.

[JayEll]

What about WOSU? I'm having a bear of a time getting it in consistently. Back in Februrary, I was getting 50-60% signal strength. Lately, it's been down in the 30-40% range. I can't find any info about their transmitter strength, or if they're upgrading anything.

Right now I'm using rabbit ears that get fine reception for everything except WOSU (and the WWHO signal disappeared a couple weeks back).