Pick a TV Station channel Above: TV Station Call letter selection can be found on the
page following with RF channel number info necessary to scan for TV Station specific services.
"These are stations I manage to recieve long enough to obtain the VC, RF, and other info on."
Digital Television Spy
DTV Home TV Info; for the residential viewer, installer and Television DXer
Curb enthusiasm of free air TV with the new Digital TV Channel layout.
Surf Digital TV Spy and get a feel of Channels and programing that may be available in your viewing
area .
Viewing Digital TV with an old TV set
Once you've added a digital tuner to an old set everything is back to normal but with more channels
from most TV Stations.
Adding Home TV Services with Virtual Channels
(in the U.S.)
When adding channels there are a couple of things good to know especially for those channels that are
weak and hard to find at times.
One thing good to know is the channel number designated to the frequency itself, used when
adding TV services with Virtual Channels.
The Frequency Channel number
This Frequency channel number is a number used to represent a TV towers operating Radio frequency,
hence - channel number.
Radio Frequency Chanel numbering is a simple method of starting from the lowest FCC Designated
frequency and proceeding to the highest.
Starting with RF channel Two with a VHF frequency of 57.000 MHZ and proceeding forward all the way to
UHF Channel 69 with a frequency of 803.000 MHZ, each channel has a spacing of 6.000 MHZ with the
exception of the channel 5 VHF frequency of 79.000 MHZ, which jumps up 10.000 MHZ from the
channel 4 frequency of 69.000 MHZ.
The VHF high band starts on Channel 7 at a frequency of 177.000 MHZ and ends at channel 13 with a
frequency of 213.000 MHZ.
The UHF frequency starts at channel 14 with a frequency of 473.000 MHZ and ends at channel 69 with a
frequency of 803.000 MHZ.
Home TV's Digital Television Channel Index
The digital method allows a station to show up under their old TV Channel number; also refereed to
as a virtual channel or VC for short.
For example Channel 2 continues to be referred to as Channel 2 and shows as 2.1 to note that it is the
first digital channel service within the TV station's frequency; any additional Virtual channels
within that frequency shall follow in order as 2.2, etc
If a Station once operated on a UHF Channel such as 30 and now is operating on a VHF Channel such as
six the station can feed the old channel number down the stream, leaving the common user almost
oblivious to any change, outside of that .1 .2 .3.etc.
This works out swell until a home owner attempts to add a channel manually, unless of course they
happen to know the real channel number;
For example WKRN in Tennessee is known as Channel Two but the station is really operating on UHF
Channel Twenty Seven (27), now if you don't know this you could punch in channel two until your
fingers bleed and unless there is another station operating on real channel two, or unless they
happen to be operating on both, you won't end up with anything but bloody nubs.
Mysterious appearing Station channels explained.
(After experiencing sore fingers and leaving the room:) Grandpa Alax (previously as a child known as ,
smart Alex) or however you prefer to spell Alix; comes in, punches in RF channel 27, watches channel
two a while, adds this channel then leaves without you being the wiser, you later enter your channel
surfing lair grab the remote and commence flipping through the channels, left to wonder how it is that
channel two suddenly decided to pay a visit.
In the sequel episode, Alax punches in RF 10 which is virtual channel 4, but doesn't add it to the
channel list, leaves it on channel 4, you return, notice channel 4, flip through the channels, never to
see channel 4 again.
(O yea , and you punch in 4 untill your fingers bleed; again!)
TV Channel numbering
VC's start with stations old Channel number(s); example;
(2-1) (2-2) (2-3) or it may be yours shows as
(2.1) (2.2) (2.3) or 002.1 002.2 002.3 etc and proceed in sequence to 69 although a station could show
as most any number they chose .
A higher number example could be ;
(28-1) (28-2) (28-3) 28 earlier being referred to as a UHF
Channel.
By the above examples you can see how a station you were familiar with in the past will
likely start at the old number dash one (2-1) or period one (2.1) and then step up in order; with the
first Digit to the left of the period matching the old analog channel number you were once
familiar with.
Scans and results for Virtual channels 02-70 were performed using an RCA ATSC Converter
Box Model: DTA800B1L; A model: DTVPal and a Magnavox TB100MW9 connected to an analog TV set:
adding_Home TV Channels
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