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myredracer wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:

wa8yxm wrote:
Not sure what TVFool is..

TVFool.com
This was the standard reference during the digital conversion. Even though the FCC had their government page, they referred to this site most of the time since it shows the predicted receive strength at the location and height you specify for any channel in the area. It can get pretty geeky with all the fancy graphs and charts, but it's still the best one out there IMO.

Is there a source for programming? I miss the old cable channel that had a schedule. It just seems more complicated with digital. But once you watch air digital, there's no way I can watch cable or air analogue.

We struggle to get 6-8 digital channels at our regular CG and half are shopping channels (2 of them!) and foreign language. On top of that, we get channels that drift in and out and even with the Wingman and Sensarpro adjusted to max. gain. We did double the number of channels with the Wingman though. We often get only 2 or 3 watchable channels.

What is the difference between a channel 24.1 and 24.2 for example? TVfool.com only shows the xxx.1 channels?

That's what the PSIP program guide does. Any of the new TV's that respond to the PSIP guide have all of the programming right there. iF you want to look at it elsewhere, check out TITAN TV.com. These guys are one of the universal programming aggregators that the stations use to supply their programming guides. For Titan online, you tell it where you are for OTA, or which cable, or satellite, and it does the rest. If u open a free account, it will remember your preferences, so if you have DirecTv, it will keep that guide, but also as you travel, you can save the various cities or areas you hang in, and the program guide is displayed through a simple pull down menu.. It's also cross platform to iPad, PC, etc. browsers so you can use it anywhere. I'm a little surprised that more full timers haven't picked up on what it does.

TVFool is not a program aggregator, so it doesn't care what's on the "dots". It's only concerned about the primary transmit channel.