KOCO-DT Update
I switched all my recording of KOCO-DT from the Mac over to my Dish 211K receiver and it failed to record “This Week…” this morning so both of my receivers are getting a very poor signal. I guess there won’t be any NBA Finals for me this year…
On the EyeTV tuner for the Mac, I did a complete rescan to try and lock in a better signal, but that has only made things worse since it didn’t find KOCO-DT at all. I tried adding KOCO-DT back manually and it only shows a 40 percent signal, not even enough to lock it in to the tuner.
In the nearly 6 years I’ve been getting it, since June 13, 2003, I’ve never received a signal that low from KOCO-DT. There have been times when it was low enough that it was unwatchable, but now I can’t even add it to my channel list. They must have adjusted their profile to offer more power to the south, but screwed those of use to the north in places like Stillwater.
Dennis
Dennis
I checked KOCOs service area map(profile) at the FCC data base and it is round and shows Stillwater well within it. Maybe KOCO was running more power before the cut. Again, The FCC data base shows them running 48KW ERP now(not very much). It is curious that KWTV is running about the same power and has the same service area map and I get them great on the small UHF loop antenna on my kitchen DTV here in Norman ???? WHY not KOCO ??? The only thing I can imagine is that KOCO is not at their final, ultimate, design configuration ???? And therfore the service area map is not truely representative of today, but rather what it will eventually be, I HOPE !!. By the way—KOCO is the only OKC DTV station I do not get on the small loop UHF antenna in the kitchen.
Interesting HUH ??. I did not get them there before the cut either. As I previously mentioned, my small 30 year old Radio Shack VHF/UHF attic antenna gets everthing great.
Rickster
this may not mean too much since I have an outdoor antenna, but the signal strength for channel 5 remains at 78. I live near Tinker. For the first time I kept getting “weak signal” for channel 13 but strangely I lost only the sound.
rickster,
48 KW is plenty for high VHF DT.
In theory, ch 7 would be better than ch 9 because of lower frequency and within the same band, if all else is equal. Something is “different” with KOCO.
I could not get the submit story to work on the site, but we received the following notice today from KWTV:
KWTV News 9, Oklahoma City, will have a maintenance outage this Saturday night. Actual date/time of outage will be 12:30 AM
The KOCO-DT transmitter needs to be moved to a location that works. If VHF channel 7 doesn’t cut it, then why not use the old KWTV channel 39 frequency. When June 12th rolls around and ABC cannot be received by a majority of people who use rabbit ears, then what. This is a situation where the FCC should require a standardized signal output that is within a set percentage of every other station.
Do you think KOKH will pay the extra money to transmit one million watts on 39 No way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way not KOKH it’s KOCO 5