Far as I'm concerned there's no need to jam the airways with mind-numbing content from every hamlet. A few regional advertising supported Ku band satellite channels should suffice. This would free up a LOT of spectrum.
73 de Jack - N7OO ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 4:01 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Off Topic (but with on topic questions):NTIA propaganda Here is a good list of what the channels will be like when the analog shuts off: http://www.w9wi.com/dtvch/dtvch.html Many are going back to their original VHF channel. Here in Bowling Green, KY it looks like channel 13 will turn off their digital that is on 33 now and stay on the old analog channel 13 as DTV. In Nashville channels 4,5 & 8 will stay on VHF. If you haven't tried to rx DTV yet it's time you did. I can watch channels now in studio quality that in analog are almost unwatchable by todays standards. HD signals are very nice too! It's easy to pick these channels up with the antenna you have up now and the cost is just going to do down from here. All TV's sold today are required to have DTV tuners. Go to Walmart and look. Several channels in Nashville are running up to 4 or more services on one channel. Here in Bowling Green Channel 40-1 is NBC, 40-2 is CBS, 13-1 is ABC, 13-2 is FOX, 13-3 is UPN(or what ever they call theirselves today), 53-1 to 53-6 are Kentucky Educational Television channels. They run PBS HD on 53-4...so many stations are broadcasting more than one service in that 6 MHz. Ben W4WSM
