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WSB over the air digital signal BLOWS in the wind
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What I Was Told...
When I worked at TV46 (in analog days), I observed that too. The problem is due to the pine needles, being a significant portion of the wavelength, cause reflections in the received signal, as the trees blow in the wind.
Now, in the digital world, the error correction (FEC) in the signal, is supposed to take care of that. BUT, I am aware that certain conditions of transmission CAN exceed what the error correction is capable of correcting, as in satellite transmission feeds.
When I worked at TV46 (in analog days), I observed that too. The problem is due to the pine needles, being a significant portion of the wavelength, cause reflections in the received signal, as the trees blow in the wind.
Now, in the digital world, the error correction (FEC) in the signal, is supposed to take care of that. BUT, I am aware that certain conditions of transmission CAN exceed what the error correction is capable of correcting, as in satellite transmission feeds.
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kf4rca
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I just remembered this and I thought I would pass it along.
I remember meeting the Cox Corporate Engineer at an SBE meeting shortly after the new HD channel assignments were announced by the FCC.
It was a dinner meeting at a local restaurant. I don't know how I ended up sitting next to Sterling Davis.
So, I asked him, if he was concerned about the high channel slot his station got. His station went from 2 to 39 . (I thought the V's would always retain a V slot.)
Our station went from 46 to 19, which we thought was a step in the right direction.
And he said, "Well, it's just like anything else, that, over time, with improvements in technology, all channels will be on an equal basis."
So, there you have it. We'll just have to wait.
I remember meeting the Cox Corporate Engineer at an SBE meeting shortly after the new HD channel assignments were announced by the FCC.
It was a dinner meeting at a local restaurant. I don't know how I ended up sitting next to Sterling Davis.
So, I asked him, if he was concerned about the high channel slot his station got. His station went from 2 to 39 . (I thought the V's would always retain a V slot.)
Our station went from 46 to 19, which we thought was a step in the right direction.
And he said, "Well, it's just like anything else, that, over time, with improvements in technology, all channels will be on an equal basis."
So, there you have it. We'll just have to wait.
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kf4rca
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This is really sad since they are about to be bumped off AT&T cable (2/2) and obviously an outdoor antenna is not a solution.
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kf4rca
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If they got a power increase then most likely they went with a CP antenna which is suppose to improve things. A circular polarized transmit antenna causes a reflected wave to reverse itself (in polarization) at the receive antenna and cancel out the reflection.
Here's an interesting thread courtesy of AVS forum:
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Here's an interesting thread courtesy of AVS forum:
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