Also transmitter power on Digital seems to be 10db less or more..... An engineer here indicates many HDTV transmitters are 1500w output...plus antenna system.. ERP is a lot less in most cases.. Said engineer indicated the industry may be going to push for 6kw nozzle power after all is up and running and they can sort out what is what... This is all from unofficial armchair conversations and may vary by locale....
Doug At 02:51 AM 2/23/2009, you wrote: >If the digital is on a very different frequency, then the frequency >change is a reason why digital reception may be problematic. For >example, if you are using a VHF antenna to try to receive >a UHF digital signal, that will be problematic. > >------ Original Message ------ >Received: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:14:14 PM PST >From: wd8chl <<mailto:wd8chl%40gmail.com>wd8...@gmail.com> >To: ><mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Somewhat OT - How to make HDTV *really* work > > > > That's the gripe. If I put up an antenna that works fine for analog, > > there is no excuse for it NOT to work with digital, except that digital > > must be crap. Rf is RF. > > Virtually everybody I have talked to has had nothing but problems with > > DTV. Invariably they get fewer channels, and stations that are good to > > excellent in analog can frequently be unwatchable in digital. To see a > > digital as reliably as an analog is the exception, not the rule. > > > >
