TV • DTV DX Expo
Featuring photographs of real TV DX • Updated 1-16-2010
Maintained by Danny Oglethorpe, member of Worldwide TV/FM DX Association
Much appreciation to Fernando Garcia, Jeff Kruszka, and Christopher S. Dunne
Click on a picture below to see a
South of the Border TV DX Sampler
(Including one of Mexico's UNofficial stations)

Changing with the Digital Times

The TV / DTV DX Exposition has been on-line for eleven years. A major update is currently in progress, and new pages will be added throughout 2010. Many new TV and DTV DX photographs will be displayed, including new photographs from Christopher S. Dunne.

As of January 2010, you can see on-air local IDs (in addition to the PSIP data IDs) from more than one-hundred DTVs. The first few of my new digital TV DX photo pages are now finished. See the links under "My TV DX Pages" below.


A Philadelphia DX Story

On Friday, June 12, 2009, my son and I witnessed one of the most interesting events of my forty-plus years of DXing. E-skip gave us the opportunity to see the sign-off of WPVI-6 analog TV in Philadelphia and the sign-on of WPVI-DT6 (at a distance of 1157 miles). Much of WPVI's noon newscast was devoted to the DTV transition. WPVI went off at 12:15 Eastern Time. At that time, a DTV information slide from WJAC-6 Johnstown, PA appeared briefly. In a matter of seconds, WPVI-DT's digital snow covered WJAC on the analog TV, while the Zenith DTT-901 digital converter's signal bar began to move. Soon afterwards, a few spurts of video were decoded from WPVI-DT6.

1101 Central Time
WPVI-6 newscast begins
1114 CT
WPVI-6 preparing to sign off
1114 CT
WPVI-6 preparing to sign off
1115 CT
WPVI-6 analog is off
WJAC-6 Johnstown, PA appears
1115 CT
WPVI-DT6 is on
WPVI-DT6's snow begins to cover WJAC-6
Shortly after 1116 CT
WPVI-DT6 decodes
"DTV 6-3 WPVI-WX"



Left: Winegard Chromstar CA-5254 VHF-only antenna (sixteen foot boom length) and Antennacraft P-5 chicken-wired UHF dish with a Winegard AP-4700 UHF preamp. Both antennas are on rotors and connected to RG-11 feedline. (The dish is currently down for repairs.) Right: Channel Master old-style 4228 8-bay into a Winegard AP-4700 UHF preamp and RG-11 is currently being used for UHF.


TV DX TIPS AND INFORMATION


JEFF KRUSZKA'S TV DX PAGES (DX received in south Louisiana)


CHRISTOPHER S. DUNNE'S TV DX PAGES (DX received in south Florida)



OTHER TV DX PAGES


MY TV DX PAGES (DX received in north Louisiana)



Check out the Worldwide TV/FM DX Association's website. This is the organization in North America for TV and FM DXers. Many of the world's most successful VHF-UHF DXers are members. For twenty-four U.S. dollars ($24) yearly dues you will receive:
  • VHF-UHF Digest (VUD) monthly paper magazine via snail mail and color e-zine via the Internet
  • Instantaneous e-mail list for DX alerts, loggings, news, and discussion of TV/FM DX topics
  • WTFDA Forums for discussion of TV, FM, and AM DXing

Novice DXers are always welcome!
Wikipedia article about TV/FM DXing