[kwlug-disc] Ota TV CITV down?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Yes, actually watching, then the station went out, I flipped to its
duplicate, and saw the same thing.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Herman Gruetzmacher
<hgruetzmacher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Khalid. How do you keep track of simultaneous outages, were you actually
> watching?
>
>
>
> From: kwlug-disc [mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org] On Behalf Of Khalid
> Baheyeldin
> Sent: March 28, 2016 10:33 PM
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Ota TV CITV down?
>
>
>
> Speaking of TVO, yes there has been two or so outages for less than minute
> during the past week or two. That was on both 19 (Paris tower) and 28 (CN
> tower). The fact that the outage was simultaneous on both suggests that this
> is and upstream issue.
>
> On Mar 28, 2016 6:14 PM, "B.S." <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>>________________________________
>> From: Joseph Wennechuk <youcanreachmehere at Hotmail.com>
>>To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
>>Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 5:03 PM
>>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Ota TV CITV down?
>>
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>>I know many on this list use ota TV,  so here is my question. During the
>> ice storm I seemed to loose channel 36 CITV. Has anything happened? It has
>> not come back up yet.
>
>
> I can't speak to CITV, don't get it, but I did notice significant
> degradation of everything, including CTV Kitchener, which is highly unusual.
>
> TVO has also been problematic since something like the middle of last week.
>
> CBC has been right out, but I think in that case I only get it for the
> signal bouncing off something correctly / the stars are in alignment. In
> that case, I think multipath (same bounced signal arriving mostly
> simultaneously from different reflected paths, and the tuner unable to
> consistently lock on any one of them) is my unsolvable problem.
>
> I have also noticed, since last fall, an overall degradation of signal,
> except for CHCH and CTV Kitchener, which has mystified me. In the sense that
> presumably the air is clearer, and definitely the leaves are gone from
> nearby trees, so I expected the signal to be more solid. Conversely, this
> seems to indicate that trees and leaves are getting me a better signal.
> Presumably the 'configuration' of such will be different year over year, so
> I suspect I can't depend upon a sufficiently reliable signal.
>
> Curiously, it has seemed that weather has made little difference, clear
> skies, nights, rain, snow, or storm. Ice was covering the antenna, which I
> assume explains most of the recent signal degradation - now largely gone /
> from the weekend.
>
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