Milwaukee HDTV User Group

I happened to notice last night that channel 64 (weather) was back on analog cable - no "you need a DTA to view" screen.  I know this was one that Alderman Bauman was concerned about its removal from the analog lineup.  Anybody know what happened?  I know Saturday going to Racine office to exchange a dead DTA I walked in with 47 people ahead of me.....

About 6 months ago we had a major incident in Racine where a high voltage line feeding substation on Spring Street came in contact with a lower voltage line leaving the substation.  Homes nearby had their electric meters literally blown off their homes - and major electrical damage to electronic equipment in them.  I was spared the surge (different phase?), but 2,500 customers were without power, mine for almost 6 hours.  Like some others above, I too have my modem and router on a UPS.  I was able to go onto the WE Energies outage map to see the extent of the outage - it was very large.  Cable phone also stayed up.  This all stayed alive until my UPS battery died.  So definitely most of the Alpha boxes had to have lost AC power - and the network stayed up.

I think they almost have to have standby power as for the "intelligent home" security service they are now promoting.  If it can't communicate with power out, then what good would it be?

Quote from: grenier;59634I'm not getting GSN where WTMJ-4 used to be, it's just a black screen.

Hi guys - was here a looooooooong time ago and have just been lurking.  The black screen resuts if you go to analog 4 or 4.1 without using a converter or DTA.  If you are using your TV quam, then you get the black channel.  They must be doing a map on that change, keeping 4 there.  But 4.2 and 4.3 quam are actually feeding starz.  Mike