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I am also a licenced amateur radio operator, callsign VE3LXL. Information about my amateur radio station is found on my station website.

Sunday 20 May 2012

New Analog TV Station Logged

This is something I didn't think would ever happen again, with the conversion to digital TV broadcasting last year in Canada, but I added a new analog TV station to the log today. Well, new to the log; the station itself isn't new:
  • CICO-TV-74, channel 18 (494-500 MHz) from Peterborough, ON, at 1511-1515 UTC. TV Ontario, parallel to local CICA with TVO Kids. Good audio, fair video. Tropo.
The reason that it's still possible to log analog TV stations is that last August's deadline for conversion applied only in Canada's larger markets. In smaller locales, stations were allowed to continue to broadcast in analog longer. This TVO outlet is one of these stations.

I also logged two other analog stations today. Both are relogs:
  • Unidentified station on channel 15 at 1516 UTC with fair signal. Religious programming. This is either WBNF Buffalo (a low powered repeater that was allowed to continue broadcasting in analog) or local Star Ray TV, a low powered broadcaster in eastern Toronto. I've logged both before.
  • CHEX-TV-2, channel 22, Peterborough, ON, at 1517 UTC with poor signal. CBC TV.
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