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What is WGSR going to do with W18BG low power relay station?

Matt Smith said:
significantly reducing the signal over the less-populated areas of Caswell (NC) and Halifax (VA) Counties.

We won't know for sure until we're on the air, but it should give a reasonably good signal for folks with antennas in Rocky Mount, Ferrum and maybe Smith Mountain Lake. Who knows, you might get a viewable signal where you live.
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Those two statements are pretty contradictory, since I live in the same direction as Halifax. (I'm to its east northeast) I've seen digital TV work well at low power levels, and I may still be surprised, but 0.7 kW on a signal that's not line-of-sight is feeling pretty unlikely. TVFool does not even show it. I used to receive video (but not audio) from W18BG analog before WDBJ-DT signed on in 2002, but I'm not sure how well the signal would hold together at reduced power and in digital.

http://www.rabbitears.info/dxlocation.php?id=1
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id=bc27c20b20d491

Oh well...

- Trip
 
Ok, my bad. I thought you lived near Roanoke.

Later . . . .
 
Matt, I forgot all about it but I have the setup ready to send you that Earl Burton audio by mail. If you don't mind a tape of an easy listening radio station I heard on the way to the beach on the back (and unless I get another tape for you, or you're willing to copy it to an audio file, I'll need that tape back). I need for someone who knows how to convert that audio into a file, but I don't think any of the members of my Yahoo group want to do it. I wanted them to hear what the station sounded like, but the fact the audio is poor may have discouraged any of them from helping, since most of them want the hgihest quality possible when they listen to music.

All they could do is post samples in the Yahoo group's file section.
 
Christopher Chenn said:
vchimpanzee said:
Forget Earl Burton. I couldn't hear anything. Apparently keeping that tape in a box for 20 years was a bad thing.
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Maybe the tape got twisted and you were playing the back side. Been there, done that.
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I'll try to figure out what happened, but I don't know what I could have done wrong. Maybe it's just old.
 
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