[Grovenet] Digital Electronics

[Kristy Gravlin]

> 
> Kristy, do you get any of your stations on translator stations. (do
> you get channel 2 with your antenna on a number other than 2? Like
> say channel 55 or 37?) If so, then you will be concerned with analog
> passthrough capability.  All the major channels will have to
> broadcast digitally, but the translator stations that boost the
> signal to outlying areas can keep on broadcasting in analog after
> Feb. So you'll still have to have the analog signal get to your TV by
> passing through the converter box. Most converter boxes don't have
> passthrough capabilities so you have to look for it.
> So if you live way out in the boonies and use all translator stations
> you don't have to do anything. If you get some of each you need a
> converter box with passthrough. And if you are like us, get all the
> major stations directly but just with an antenna, any converter box
> will work.

I'm on vacation in Illinois at the moment...but here's what I think I get
there:
2/6/8/11 as expected
22 and 49 I think (is 49 Fox? I get that on Channel 3? ... at least in the
low numbers someplace.)
I didn't know it was exciting to be able to get 22.
(If something there didn't make sense, I admit I have to readjust when I go
back and forth because the channels are "almost...but not quite" the same.
For example 2-CBS, 5-NBC, and 7-ABC here...and 10 is PBS.)

Most of them have good days and bad days...that is with a good picture and
sound, or with snow and static. They wait till nothing else of "value" (I
use the term loosely, of course) is on all the other channels, and then the
one thing I might choose has little picture and obnoxious sound. Ain't that
always the way?!?

The set is maybe three years old? I plugged it in and it worked. That's my
level of expertise. I do depend on that TV for background noise. And I am in
the hills just before the foothills west of Banks. I assume there is still
no cable available.

I have cable here in Illinois ... and one could get hooked. 8-)
Kristy