the doctor who and japan channel, part 4: the snow day
So we have serious snowfall here today, and temperatures well below freezing. It's currently -4.5C, with temperatures expected to fall through the day. We have over 13cm of snow and it's still falling.
I was really curious what all this falling snow would do to our antenna performance, right? Because we've known this has been coming for days. And now I know, and... I'm surprised in multiple ways!
All the stations we receive directly are fine. Weirdly, some of them are better - by the numbers, anyway - implying that some tree branches are being bent down out of the way somewhere, or something else like that.
Except for one. There's one that's gone down. It's not the low-power station down at Tiger Mountain - that's fine!
It's KTBC / NHK World. Signal is through the floor. Most of the time, no picture at all.
That's the station that we get by catching a signal bounce off of Tiger Mountain...
...which is currently covered in massive amounts of new snow.
So I think all the snow on the ground has stopped the mountain from reflecting the signal. The snow is either absorbing most of the signal or distorting the reflection so badly it can't be picked up, because the low-70s signal is currently low-20s and I'm not getting a goddamn thing except enough occasional flashes to see it's still on the air.
I'm kinda mad but also this is kind of hilarious because of all the outcomes I was expecting, "everything better except the one that we ended up getting on a bounce" was not one of them.
Goddammit xD
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I was really curious what all this falling snow would do to our antenna performance, right? Because we've known this has been coming for days. And now I know, and... I'm surprised in multiple ways!
All the stations we receive directly are fine. Weirdly, some of them are better - by the numbers, anyway - implying that some tree branches are being bent down out of the way somewhere, or something else like that.
Except for one. There's one that's gone down. It's not the low-power station down at Tiger Mountain - that's fine!
It's KTBC / NHK World. Signal is through the floor. Most of the time, no picture at all.
That's the station that we get by catching a signal bounce off of Tiger Mountain...
...which is currently covered in massive amounts of new snow.
So I think all the snow on the ground has stopped the mountain from reflecting the signal. The snow is either absorbing most of the signal or distorting the reflection so badly it can't be picked up, because the low-70s signal is currently low-20s and I'm not getting a goddamn thing except enough occasional flashes to see it's still on the air.
I'm kinda mad but also this is kind of hilarious because of all the outcomes I was expecting, "everything better except the one that we ended up getting on a bounce" was not one of them.
Goddammit xD
Also posted to ソ-ラ-バ-ド-のおん;
comments at Dreamwidth. Please comment there.