How does a broadcaster get to go back and use his old VHF assignment? I thought that all VHF TV was being killed so that those frequencies could be used for mobile/emergency services, with TV gone from that part of the spectrum altogether. By legislation (or perhaps by simple FCC rulemaking). And, oh by the way, the mobile / emergency services have to (already have?) bid big bucks to obtain access to the VHF TV spectrum.
Are we going to have a whole lot of angry folks next February who will find that they have to get their signal from a satellite -- install a dish? ?? Fred Holmes At 07:35 AM 7/3/2008, Richard P. wrote: >I think that this will be quite a surprise for all the people that went out >and spent $ on UHF installations, only to find that they will have to spend >more $ on VHF/UHF installations. It won't make the broadcasters look good. > >Richard P. > > >> >> >>>I just spoke to one of the local TV station's engineers about our >>>intermittent OTA reception, who said that any UHF (read most HD channels), >>>transmission will be more problematic than a VHF signal. So problematic that >>>two stations that I know of in my area are going back to their original VHF >>>channel assignment, come Feb. '09, which should improve reception >>>tremendously. >> >> Many, if not most of the stations that currently use VHF for their analog >> signals, but are using UHF for digital, will revert to VHF for digital in >> February of 2009. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
