Checked at midnight but color bars still continued. Was surprised that they did not switch over until late in the day. I had thought they would have switched over during the early morning hours.KTMD RF48 still on at a 8:45am check today 5/18. Color bars continue on RF22. The Telemundo Houston social media as well as TVAnswers.org still has May 18 as the switchover date, so perhaps the change will happen later today.
everything transferred seamlessly (including the infamous slide on 47.3) on RF 22.
The encoder used to create the transmitted multichannel digital datastream is usually located at a station’s master control facility, not the transmitter site. It would appear the digital STL was simply moved from the old RF48 transmitter to the new RF22 unit, so nothing changed with the master encoder.
Speaking of KTMD subchannels, perhaps they will finally get rid of the silly 47.3 stream that used to have Cozi-TV. Still has a graphic advising a channel change that took place a year ago.
I think we can call it a day on the repack.
True about the repack, but there will be more rescans in the future when ATSC 3.0 launches and the ATSC 1.0 channels are consolidated onto a few "lighthouse" transmitters. Houston is already announced as one of the first markets to get 3.0, but that is probably 18-24 months away at the earliest.
True. T-Mobile has started installing 600 MHz radios and panels around Houston. They will probably have the entire market blanketed with 600 MHz LTE by this fall (that is if the merger doesn't cause them to hault permits).I think we can call it a day on the repack.
The LP station is a minor aberration.
DFW is testing it now with three ATC sites..Cedar Hill, North Dallas and Broadcast Hill iirc.
True. T-Mobile has started installing 600 MHz radios and panels around Houston. They will probably have the entire market blanketed with 600 MHz LTE by this fall (that is if the merger doesn't cause them to hault permits).
They are for both 600 and 700 MHz use. The difference with this heftier equipment is that it is capable of 4x4 MIMO and 5GNR-ready.I've noticed the larger panels on many cell towers lately, assuming they are the new 600 MHz antennas.
600 MHz is being touted as the spectrum that will bring parity with Verizon and At&t. While all carriers have low band spectrum, T-Mobile has the least out of all the carriers. T-Mobile has gotten by with only one 5x5 FDD LTE carrier while Verizon and At&t have each enjoyed a 10x10 FDD carrier + Cellular band fallback.Not sure if 600 MHz is going to give the big range improvement that T-Mobile likes to hype unless they are comparing to 1900/2100 MHz, not 700/800 MHz.
True about the repack, but there will be more rescans in the future when ATSC 3.0 launches and the ATSC 1.0 channels are consolidated onto a few "lighthouse" transmitters. Houston is already announced as one of the first markets to get 3.0, but that is probably 18-24 months away at the earliest.
KZHO transmits from the Chase building downtown, so no Missouri City tower farm activity involved here. If they are still on RF39 (not seeing them on my latest scans) it must be delays obtaining and installing the new VHF equipment.
Receiving 3 rf solid today. Lightning? yesterday had it totally dead. also 5 rf. Side note: receiving 50 rf KBTX solid anytime on the back side of a small yagi. This freq is dead center on Tmo's INPUT (phone to cell tower) allocation. If their cell towers are as high as my antenna(100 ft) they will be clobbered until phase 9.
True. T-Mobile has started installing 600 MHz radios and panels around Houston. They will probably have the entire market blanketed with 600 MHz LTE by this fall (that is if the merger doesn't cause them to hault permits).