WHDH-TV to stay on 42.

[necrat123]

WHDH-TV filed a notice of proposed rulemaking to reallocate from 7 to 42.

BPRM-20090706ABZ

So this is basically them staying on 42.

 

[tripinva]

I'd have posted this but I'm waiting for the PDF of the paperwork to show up on the ECFS first. I want to see exactly what they have to say about it.

- Trip

 

[pqgeorge]

WHDH-TV filed a notice of proposed rulemaking to reallocate from 7 to 42.

BPRM-20090706ABZ

So this is basically them staying on 42.

It makes sense. DTV on VHF Channel 7 or basically for any VHF channel doesn't work as well as UHF. In the past month of so, the verdict is in in terms of WHDH, WLS, WABC, WPIX et.al. DTV works better on UHF rather than VHF. It's a rather funny thing. Back in the day, most people thought that UHF would NEVER fly for TV. Everybody wanted a VHF station. Now in 2009, quite the opposite is happening. Personally, I feel that the FCC should have NOT relinquished Channels 52-69 from television use. Instead, they should have reallocated Channels 2-13 (VHF) for first responders and land-mobile use and moved all television operations upstairs to UHF (14-69). There would have been plenty of spectrum for TV stations, NOW and plenty of room for more stations in the future. Now, it's pretty boxed in with Channels 52-69 totally out of the picture. I had a feeling that WHDH would eventually move permanently to Channel 42. Smart move on the behalf of WHDH.

 

[tripinva]

http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=7019808615

There's the PDF.

- Trip

 

[DJKraze]

WHDH-TV filed a notice of proposed rulemaking to reallocate from 7 to 42.

BPRM-20090706ABZ

So this is basically them staying on 42.

It makes sense. DTV on VHF Channel 7 or basically for any VHF channel doesn't work as well as UHF. In the past month of so, the verdict is in in terms of WHDH, WLS, WABC, WPIX et.al. DTV works better on UHF rather than VHF. It's a rather funny thing. Back in the day, most people thought that UHF would NEVER fly for TV. Everybody wanted a VHF station. Now in 2009, quite the opposite is happening. Personally, I feel that the FCC should have NOT relinquished Channels 52-69 from television use. Instead, they should have reallocated Channels 2-13 (VHF) for first responders and land-mobile use and moved all television operations upstairs to UHF (14-69). There would have been plenty of spectrum for TV stations, NOW and plenty of room for more stations in the future. Now, it's pretty boxed in with Channels 52-69 totally out of the picture. I had a feeling that WHDH would eventually move permanently to Channel 42. Smart move on the behalf of WHDH.

Here's another variation on that, 2-4 and 7-13 for those uses, and 5&6 end up as extended FM. (Japan already uses those frequencies for FM, new radios wouldn't be hard to design, heck, my clonePod already has them)

 

[Skynet74]

Good move. Glad to see it. Signal was just plain horrible on VHF. Half the people viewing them over the air couldn't even get the station anymore.

 

[w9wi]

Personally, I feel that the FCC should have NOT relinquished Channels 52-69 from television use. Instead, they should have reallocated Channels 2-13 (VHF) for first responders and land-mobile use and moved all television operations upstairs to UHF (14-69). There would have been plenty of spectrum for TV stations, NOW and plenty of room for more stations in the future. Now, it's pretty boxed in with Channels 52-69 totally out of the picture. I had a feeling that WHDH would eventually move permanently to Channel 42. Smart move on the behalf of WHDH.

Here's another variation on that, 2-4 and 7-13 for those uses, and 5&6 end up as extended FM. (Japan already uses those frequencies for FM, new radios wouldn't be hard to design, heck, my clonePod already has them)

IMHO the land-mobile and first-responder groups were at least as responsible as the broadcasters for wanting to keep 2-13 for TV.

The lower frequencies are even less suitable for two-way communications than they are for TV. Antennas are too big for hand-held use.

Channels 55 and 56 are used by Verizon's V-Cast. (among other vendors of the MediaFLO service) An internal antenna on a cell phone would be so inefficient at channel 5 that the service would be lucky to reach five miles from the tower. (and probably wouldn't work inside most office buildings) Alternatively, an effective antenna would require the user have a 4-foot whip sticking out of their phone.....

 

[james32746]

Now they can send that new Harris Platnium CD transmitter down to sister station WSVN which is also on digital Ch. 7 or trade it in for a solid state model as a backup.

 

[HD_Ready]

is it just me or did rf ch 7 all but disappeared yesterday?

 

[jlehmann]

is it just me or did rf ch 7 all but disappeared yesterday?

I'm still getting it, with what seems like the same signal strength that it's been all along.