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WEDY Requests Channel Change from 6 to 41
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tripinva said:
It's about time they actually put some actual POWER behind 'EDY's signal. This has always been a very underpowered PBS station all along. I think it was only designed to serve the area near Yale University, a sort of glorified UHF translator on Channel 65. How far does their current VHF Channel 6 signal cover, about a mile or two?
ansky212 said:
49 does, probably quite effortlessly. I think 65 was there because 49 used to be a separate station back in the old days, owned by CPTV but ran its own programming until the early to mid 90s.
Wouldn't that be too close to WSAH, which I thought was on 42?
Bill DeFelice said:
Its based on power level, not proximity. So there is a magic formula out there on how many expected viewers will be lost.
Have no fear, alot of people are looking at this filing with interest.
DJKraze said:
I believe it was somewhere in NJ. WCVB didn't lower their power or anything, so they maybe they just realized that it's something they're going to have to deal with. It's not like it's something they're going to be affected by every day... I would say maybe 3-4 days per year.
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RE: Reception in New Haven. My understanding was, the goal was when WEDH moved to Rattlesnake, the New Haven satellite was no longer going to be needed. However I bet they determined they do need to maintain a local signal in New Haven, and the wimpy signal on VHF 6 just wasn't cutting it.
RE: WCVB interference. The interference was to Tband "20" which is allocated to Philadelphia, and there was a county in Southern New Jersey that filed a complaint about it. I never read a resolution to it but I think it was determined to be acceptable, because it only occurs occasionally.
Heck police departments in Rhode Island receive interference from New York City departments. It happens here in the crowded northeast.
RE: WCVB interference. The interference was to Tband "20" which is allocated to Philadelphia, and there was a county in Southern New Jersey that filed a complaint about it. I never read a resolution to it but I think it was determined to be acceptable, because it only occurs occasionally.
Heck police departments in Rhode Island receive interference from New York City departments. It happens here in the crowded northeast.
tripinva said:
It looks like this request has been turned down... WLVI objected saying that WEDY & WLVI would be short-spaced by close to 20km.
It seems there are no UHF channels available to WEDY. The best they could do would be petition for channel 5. They would escape the interference from WPVI/WRGB, and would be able to run more power than now. Of course, it's still second-rate VHF.
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