Archive for January, 2010

Sunday Morning Snow In Wendell

Here’s my puppy Zeus playing in the snow Sunday morning.


Air Versus Cable Part 2

In the last post, we looked at the 8-VSB RF signals and discussed data rates on the DTV streams. This time we take a look at QAM used by the cable industry. I captured the screen shots on my Sencore 1850 MPEG analyzer on the same day for air and cable. Here’s a look at [...]


Air Versus Cable Part 1

I want to take a few minutes to talk about invisible signals in the air, and in part 2, what QAM looks like. It’s impossible to “see” RF signals with the naked eye, so we rely on test equipment to show us what is going on in the high speed RF spectrum. You may know [...]


Time To Get Ready For The Olympics!


cLeaR QaM on TimE-WarNer

For a complete list of clear QAM channels on Time-Warner in our area visit the list maintained by Erik Garci at http://home.roadrunner.com/~res18h39/channels.htm
A couple of weeks after Time-Warner moved NBC 17 to a new channel in late November, the emails had died down so I figured everyone had resolved the issue of missing the NBC 17 [...]


Troubleshooting Antenna Issues

Tips on troubleshooting antenna issues from a couple of animated friends of mine