Ron Wright wrote: > Ch 2-6 will not go dead in Feb 2007. Some stations will turn off their > analog txs and use what they are now using for HDTV probably on UHF, but many > will turn off the HDTV and convert their analog VHF, lo and hi, to HDTV on > these lower channels. Our ch 3, EDU educational will do this. It is the > only local lo VHF. All the high VHF here will convert to HDTV and turn off > what is now their UHF HDTV. $1,000,000 being turned off to set.
All depends on the area. Around here, Channel 4 is already up on UHF for HD and staying there, as is Channel 2. Channel 6 is staying on VHF, and the high-band VHF's 7 & 9 are staying VHF also. I was told by a local broadcast engineer that in early trials, it was learned that low-VHF suffers from certain types of noise that tears up the digital signals, and later station moves by most networks took that into account and planned to skip on up to UHF where they could, if they originally had a low-VHF allocation. I can't back that statement up with anything, though... just what he said. Nate WY0X
