More HDTV Photos Page Three

When digital television arrived, the distance listening community had to invent a new kind of proof. An analogue catch could be recorded as sound or photographed as a rolling, snowy picture, and the noise itself was evidence of distance. A digital signal either decodes or it does not, so the only record of an extraordinary reception is a photograph of a clean picture with the station's own identification on screen — which is what this page collects, contributed by one long-standing enthusiast.

The captions carry the information: the station, its channel, its city, and the great-circle distance from the receiver, with the month of the opening. The remarkable entries are the summer tropospheric ducts, where a temperature inversion over a large area carried stations from the southeast of the country most of the way across it — distances several times the normal horizon for those frequencies. Others in the set are the routine long-haul catches that a good antenna and a patient operator collect over a season.

The page also credits the contributor's own site, where he keeps off-air photographs going back to the early years of television and ionospheric catches from the analogue era. This page is kept as it was published on this domain; the external links and addresses on it are historical.