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6 Responses to “Suddenlink Stillwater HD Channel List Updated”

1. redrings responds: August 13th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

   Does anyone know if Suddenlink in Stillwater is transmitting HD locals over clear QAM?

2. Dennis Whiteman responds: August 13th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

   At one time, they were transmitting Oklahoma City stations 4, 5 and 9 in the clear. I’m not sure if they were broadcasting 25 after they added it or not, but it seems like there was a problem.

   My friends who were getting those channels should be back next week and I’ll ask them…

   Dennis

3. redrings responds: August 21st, 2008 at 11:34 pm

   Thanks, I seem to be able to pickup 705 KOKH-HD-Fox Oklahoma City, OK HD Broadcast, 710 KWTV-HD-CBS Oklahoma City, OK HD Broadcast, 720 KOCO-HD-ABC Oklahoma City, OK HD Broadcast, and 730 KFOR-HD-NBC Oklahoma City, OK HD Broadcast - however, i’m currently subscribed to the Digital HD Package so i don’t know if I’m getting them in the clear or not. I’m switching to the most basic of basic packages on Monday, so I’ll find out then I guess.

   I’m now having a problem tuning those channels in Vista Media Center TV Pack 2008. I pick them all up through Catalyst Media Center (using ati 650 PCIe), they are showing up as channels 115, 116, 117, and 118 - the guide in Catalyst Media Center doesn’t work for some reason. Anyway, you have to add the channels manually in VMC and I can’t figure out what it thinks those channel numbers should be. It wants them to be in the format ##-#, which doesn’t fit the format I have either from Suddenlink or from Catalyst Media Center as neither have a -#. For example, I’ve added both 720-1 and 117-1, but I get a no signal error in Vista Media Center with both. I also tried using the broadcast channel number for fox (4.1 as 4-1), but this doesn’t work either.

   Anyone have any luck adding clear QAM channels to VMC TV Pack?

4. redrings responds: August 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 am

   I thought I had it figured out as I remembered that my TV has a built in QAM tuner. I had it scan for channels and sure enough, there were the 4 HD channels over QAM listed as channels 101-1 (CBS), 101-2 (FOX), 102-1 (ABC), and 102-2 (NBC). Unfortunately, VMC still doesn’t like these. The search continues…

5. redrings responds: August 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am

   Well, I’m giving up on clearQAM in Vista Media Center. I hooked up an Antenna’s Direct 91XG that I’m looking to have installed on a tower (it’s currently laying on my living room floor). To my amazement i was able to pickup all of the OKC UHF channels from Stillwater with it just laying on my floor! I’m hoping that once I get it on my tower that I’ll be able to pull in ABC and CBS as it is supposed to also pickup high VHF. If not, Antennas Direct is releasing a VHF only box shaped 1ft x 1ft antenna this fall that they say should pick them (and they’re including a VHF/UHF combiner with it). Anyone know a place that will install a TV antenna in Stillwater? I’ve called Star Scan Satellite Systems and they said they don’t have the staff for it (though they did send out a kid that said he would do it, but I would prefer that it was through a company for insurance reasons).

6. redrings responds: August 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am

   Oops! Just noticed that there are forums! Guess that would have been a better place to post this.

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