Browsing is totally worth it: a new 4000 unearthed?

[Darr'chelle]

northstar.com is a website with all sorts of broadcasting information in the Upper Midwest.

They also have a TV captures section.

Now, what does this have to do with The Weather Channel!? Well, in Willmar, Minnesota, there's a UHF cable system (cable channels over-the-air). (They also have something like that in Duncan, Arizona.)

K34HO carries The Weather Channel and is its only actual TV station (not owned by it, obviously).

Anyways...http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/captures/mn/k34ho.html

I found that today. It's DX shots of K34HO from June 2007, and right during the Local Forecast, too!

I think it's an undiscovered 4000, but given that it's Chazz country, he might have found it first. But I don't think anyone's seen IMAGES of that 4000.

Of course, two years have gone by, but considering how this puppy works, I'd think it's still there. 20 years and we have 4000s still cranking out graphics.

[jtmal0723]

Based off those pictures, I see no degradation.

[Darr'chelle]

They've been on the air since 1988, I should point out.

[Gil]

They've been on the air since 1988, I should point out.

If you want to get really technical, the earliest would have been 1989 (unless it was part of beta testing).

[LFMusicFan]

Actually, if you browse those directories, there's 2 undiscovered 4000's. One in Willmar, and the other in Alexandria.

[Darr'chelle]

They've been on the air since 1988, I should point out.

If you want to get really technical, the earliest would have been 1989 (unless it was part of beta testing).

I meant K34HO, not the 4000.

[Darr'chelle]

http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/captures/mn/k50db.html

I will promptly create an article on Wikipedia for this one.

I see more out there in MN alone too...scrambled TWC broadcasts. Maybe there are more 4000s in hiding in podunk towns?

Running tab: K26DG Granite Falls, K34HO Willmar, K50DB Alexandria, K39EK Columbus NE are the ones I can know of.

We need Chazz to investigate, don't we? XD

[WeatherSTARIII]

Wait a minute? They show TWC on a broadcast station? 

[Joe The Dragon]

is it free or scrambled? like the old on tv OTA scrambled tv channels.

Will die on the analog turn off date?

go OTA digital? OTA HD Digital?

 

[jtmal0723]

is it free or scrambled? like the old on tv OTA scrambled tv channels.

Will die on the analog turn off date?

go OTA digital? OTA HD Digital?

 

It's low power, thus it's unaffected by the DTV transition at this time.

[Joe The Dragon]

is it free to air or scrambled?

[Darr'chelle]

Mostly scrambled in these cases.

[WeatherSTARIII]

That probly explains why the reception is so fuzzy. I wonder if the WeatherSTAR 4000 is capible of outputing a digital OTA signal?

[narunetto]

That probly explains why the reception is so fuzzy. I wonder if the WeatherSTAR 4000 is capible of outputing a digital OTA signal?

Well, the 4000 of course can't, but it wouldn't matter anyway since there's an MPEG-2 8-VSB encoder that converts it and then sends it to the transmitter.