Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO
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Re: Rural loses out
guypd
Have you checked over at tvfool to see if they are going to turn up the power after the switchover? Many stations are now only putting out a low power DT signal but will turn it up after the switch over. Here one station will be going from 100 to 800. Which I am assuming will greatly effect the range of the digital signal.
Personally, if they are going to do additional tests, I hope they do it here in St. Louis. It is a larger market and I would suspect that there is significant portion of the market that is OTA. Besides, I want that power increase on the one station that I do not get in digital. |
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guypd
join:2008-05-08
Silver Springs, NY
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1 edit | I looked at the charts on tvfool, and it looks like you might be right. They aren't going to be putting out anywhere near the power that they are now, with analog, but maybe between the slight increase, and moving from a UHF location that they currently have DTV, down to the VHF spectrum, we might see something.
I guess we will just have to see what happens in February. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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said by Lazlow  :guypd Have you checked over at tvfool to see if they are going to turn up the power after the switchover? Many stations are now only putting out a low power DT signal but will turn it up after the switch over. Here one station will be going from 100 to 800. Which I am assuming will greatly effect the range of the digital signal. Most people don't get this point. They assume because they aren't getting in good signals NOW that in Feb they will contimue to get poor signal strrength. The reason for the poor signals is that the stations are having to carry both digital AND analog signals. |
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tschmidt
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join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
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1 edit | said by BF69 : The reason for the poor signals is that the stations are having to carry both digital AND analog signals. That is not really the case. What will happen in Feb is some stations change channels and/or transmit power. In general cochannel and overload interference will be reduced. Even even after loosing channels 52-69 there will likely be less stations in a give market and digital is more efficient requiring less transmit power. This will be a boon to urban viewers close to transmitter that are having overload problems today.
/tom |
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