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Brad Barnhill (bradbva@chv.mindspring.com) wrote:
: that one of the channels (WDCA) is intermittantly snowy, and that this
: situation is noticable at least 5 times per hour for several minutes
: at a time.  The local access channels are available and they have
: production equipment on site so you can produce your own shows.

Hmm. That might be out of their control.  When we lost WDCA it was
because we were the last cable operator in this area paying to
receive it, and it was getting to expensive.  WDCA is redistributed
by a microwave service company, and they were (naturally) going to make
booth pay for the entire cost of relaying the signal down here.

Chances are that there's a problem in the microwave path between
Charlottesville and Nova.  Could be something as silly as a crane
is building something, and every fiftenn minutes or so swings into
position, interferring with the signal.  Problems like that can take
weeks to find, as you go from transmitter to transmitter and just
sit there and watch through a telescope for a while...