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RailRoadDude
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Redwood Valley, CA
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4 edits |  How will this affect rural areas served by translators?
What I wonder is how will it affect areas like mine, we are served by a tranlator which rebroadcasts signals to the Ukiah and Redwood Valley areas, along with the other translators in Mendocino County. The signals the Ukiah one rebroadcasts are coming from 70 miles(one station in Santa Rosa) to over 100 miles (SF Bay Area) south of us, one reason one is needed here for OTA TV, the other is we are very rural and have rugged terrain. The local translator will continue to broadcast in analog after the Febuary date, as their is no requirement for translators and low power tv stations to go digital by any date, though ours, and many others will eventually, though like I said, it will likely be a while after the Febuary date. Currently, and until the translator does go digital, the only way to get OTA DTV stations here is via satellite or cable.
They even say on their web site
"Important - About Digital TV!
DO NOT WORRY! You will not be affected by digital TV changes right away. We will still transmit in analog.
However, you should still purchase a DTV conterter box using the DTV coupons ($40) from the government because eventually we will transmit DTV signals. If you wait until next year, the coupons may no longer be available. And note: you must buy a DTV converter that has analog pass-through in order to receive all TIA stations! It's not as hard as it sounds... read DTV on TV Translators to find out more.
It has yet to be determined how many stations we will be able to receive once the switch has been made to DTV."
»www.tiaukiah.org
After hearing the problems with distance in this NC test market, I wonder if OTA TV simply go dead here on the Febuary date, due to the digital distance limits causing the translator to no longer be able to get signals. Many here do have cable and satellite (like us, Directv), but there are still quite a few here who watch OTA, especially people like my sister who can't afford cable or satellite, what will happen to them?
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