Good news for Dish Network subscribers in the Grand Rapids Michigan area - local channels coming to Dish in HD

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Tuesday, April 29. 2008

Good news for Dish Network subscribers in the Grand Rapids Michigan area - local channels coming to Dish in HD

According to this site here, the local ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX channels are already uplinked and it is only a matter of time before they 'go live'.

From what I can tell, it is supposed to happen late April or early May 2008. The only channel I can receive OTA without use of a massive UHF Yagi antenna is WZZM 13, which broadcasts not too far away from here. Unfortunately if I use signal boosters to amp the other channels, TV 13 becomes too overpowered for my TV. Honestly, I haven't spent much time on the problem overall.

Ideally, for the best picture quality, I'd love to be able to pull all the stations in OTA but it just isn't going to happen where we live. Maybe when everything switches over to UHF in early 2009, we will receive better OTA signals.

Posted by Aaron Tiensivu in Personal at 21:34 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yeah, but those dish HD locals for GR are/will be coming from the 61.5 sat, so you'll need to get a 2nd dish pointing to that location to pick them up. It sucks, I wish they would/could just load them up on 129 or one of the other 2 that I can already see with my dish1000.

#1 chouse (Homepage) on 2008-04-30 12:53 (Reply)

This is not good. I will have to bust out my compass at home and see what trees are in the way. OTA might end up being my only option if there are trees in the way.

#1.1 Aaron Tiensivu (Homepage) on 2008-04-30 13:01 (Reply)

Yeah, I could probably add on a 61.5 dish but it'd look ugly, so i'm planning to put an OTA ant on the roof. I can pick most things up with an indoor ant but the signal isn't the greatest. This is on 76th st between eastern and division in kent county, so reception is pretty good.

#2 chouse (Homepage) on 2008-04-30 13:07 (Reply)

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