Re: Big purple digit

Kip Williams <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 17 is its UHF channel, so I was seeing some sort of local version of
> the usual bumpers.

Yes, in US analog TV channels 2 through 13 are VHF, and 14 through 83
are UHF.  (There's no channel 1.)  (Or at least the UHF channels used
to end at 83, but the top has been picked off over the years, for
other services such as cell phones.  I don't know what the highest
numbered UHF channel is now.)

But satellites are typically SHF, so I was wondering how their channel
numbering worked.  Presumably, people use downconverters.  Either
consecutive satellite channels get mapped into consecutive VHF or UHF
channels which are then tuned by one's TV in the usual way, or else
the tuning control is external to the TV, and whatever satellite
channel you're tuned to gets downconverted to channel 2 or 3,
whichever is blank in your town, as is done with VCRs.

I'm also curious whether WTBS is still free to watch in Atlanta, even
if people everywhere else have to pay for the privilege.
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