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sawtooth_mcmull

so what are they going to do about HD tv in new orleans?? the only tv station here that i can see, that is current/up-to-date with new equipment is 4 wwl-tv. they put up a new tower and a brand new state of the art transmitter facility at the gretna site about 7 years ago. i actually watched them often from uptown as they put up the new tower & antenna and took down the old one. interesting! i wanna say it took em about a week or so to do the tower work.............
my wonder is this........wdsu, wvue, etc all have older towers with outdated facilities and what not. how are these stations supposed to make the transition like other cities when we cant even get new towers or new facilities????? if HD requires more power and taller towers, how are we supposed to get any decent HD??

btw, this is a pic of one of those new fangled towers their putting up all over. dont know if they have a name for this monsters but they are unbelievable in proportion. with these they can put tons of antenna on them. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=27.84222,+-82.26250+(WFLZ-FM)&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=27.842024,-82.262463&spn=0.00138,0.001859&t=k&z=19. this is outside of tampa florida. even mobile alabama has two or three like this and they are a smaller market than us............
 
Sawtooth, New Orleans has had the monster Lodestar/Spectrasite/American Tower complex on Behrman for decades. It -- and its 2 million-watt generator -- stayed working quite nicely all throughout The Thing, and it now supports 8 or 9 FMs, several analog and even more HD TV signals, some LPTV stuff and a humpty-bazillion cellular and data transmitters. There's always room for more.

Add the six Paris Road towers to Lodestar and Channel 4 and you get eight 1000' sticks in town. Plus due to FAA height limitations thanks to the three airports ringing NOLA, that's about as much height as you're going to get. Makes it hard to justify adding another one.
 
Sawtooth McMullen said:
so what are they going to do about HD tv in new orleans?? the only tv station here that i can see, that is current/up-to-date with new equipment is 4 wwl-tv. they put up a new tower and a brand new state of the art transmitter facility at the gretna site about 7 years ago. i actually watched them often from uptown as they put up the new tower & antenna and took down the old one. interesting! i wanna say it took em about a week or so to do the tower work.............
my wonder is this........wdsu, wvue, etc all have older towers with outdated facilities and what not. how are these stations supposed to make the transition like other cities when we cant even get new towers or new facilities????? if HD requires more power and taller towers, how are we supposed to get any decent HD??
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New towers are not always necessary for DTV. Usually they're being built when the existing tower isn't strong enough to handle the additional antenna.

In New Orleans, WHNO-20, WPXL-49, WVUE-8, WWL-4, and WYES-12 are already operating full-power digital facilities. WGNO-26 has a Special Temporary Authority (STA) to operate its DTV at what appears to be full power. (I have no idea why they need STA to do that) WDSU-6 has STA to operate at about half power - most viewers will never notice the difference. WNOL-38 has STA to use a lower backup antenna. All of the stations with STA, and WLAE-32, have permits for full-power operation and may well be on the air with this full power.

IMHO that's an accomplishment in the New Orleans market, where not only were the stations (along with everything else, of course) decimated by Katrina, but the market size shrank dramatically overnight, decimating the long-term revenue base.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing one of those three-winged monsters put up here in the New Orleans area! Those things are unbelieveable in size and to radio nuts like us, they're beautiful! ;D lol The smaller Spectrasite complex in Algiers doesn't hold justice to those other monsters I've seen elsewhere.

Sam
 
That photo Sawtooth posted above is awesome!!! Those things are monsters in the sky!

As a matter of fact, and just for the record, I flew to Disney last summer. I had my portable AF/FM/CD player with me. For kicks, I put on the FM radio on the way back to N.O. and I was amazed at what you can listen to up there! I was able to listen to WFLZ (93-3 FLZ) out of Tampa and they are one of the transmitters on that giant stick.

Here's the link to the photo again:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=27.84222,+-82.26250+(WFLZ-FM)&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=27.842024,-82.262463&spn=0.00138,0.001859&t=k&z=19
 
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