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dsl_sutra

join:2003-12-25
Jersey City, NJ

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reply to cdru

Re: DTV is nice when it workls

said by cdru:

said by tschmidt:

DTV coverage is often somewhat less then analog. Hopefully once stations get better real world experience with DTV transmission they will submit modification to FCC to increase coverage, by increasing Tx power (expensive) antenna modifications
I thought I remember seeing somewhere that once the analog stations are shut down, the digital transmitters could power up to full strength. During the transition there were only operating at a percentage of what they were capable of. I don't know if that is true or if that power up has happened for some stations already or not.
In our area - NYC - there's only one station that I know of not at full DTV power - channel 13.1 WNET (PBS). On the 12th once they shut off the analog tv, the power of the DTV ch 13.1 will be cranked up


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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN

said by dsl_sutra:

said by cdru:

said by tschmidt:

DTV coverage is often somewhat less then analog. Hopefully once stations get better real world experience with DTV transmission they will submit modification to FCC to increase coverage, by increasing Tx power (expensive) antenna modifications
I thought I remember seeing somewhere that once the analog stations are shut down, the digital transmitters could power up to full strength. During the transition there were only operating at a percentage of what they were capable of. I don't know if that is true or if that power up has happened for some stations already or not.
In our area - NYC - there's only one station that I know of not at full DTV power - channel 13.1 WNET (PBS). On the 12th once they shut off the analog tv, the power of the DTV ch 13.1 will be cranked up
yeah but once the analog is shut off even those stations at full power can make changes once they have some data on reception. They might find the reception isn't as good as analog and thus raise their transmitters. They could apply to the FCC and be allowed to transmit at more power than they are allowed now. See none of this can happen until AFTER analog is shut off. And if it shut down in Feb like it was supposed to they'd have all that figured out by now.

Also stations can now apply to use digital translators. Once again stations need some data on this and that can't happen until June 12th. And it'll probably take a couple of months to get all the data at least

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