For me, TV may be another matter. I can pick up 7 and 9 VHF, maybe 60-70 air miles away, and Channel 2 barely (sometimes almost fair at night). Plus 69 UHF, but seems to be only B&W and in Spanish. There are a few more channels, but may be too weak and in a slightly different direction. I don't know if digital will make any real difference for me, though I may get the antenna a bit higher and add my rotor (hate to use it for that, as I'd rather use it for my 6 and 2 meter beams). Maybe using 1/2 or less of the cable I have up temporarily will help as well. I can get 18 on the POS antenna on top of my DTV dish, but not on the big antenna. But that is also in Spanish. would maybe be nice if the noise on 6 and 2 drop, will have to see. I'm 30 miles from 2 cities, not sure if Ft Stockton has a TV station or not, as I never find a listing for one. Monahans is the other that's 30 miles, while most of the TV stations I know of are Midland/Odessa, 50 plus miles to Odessa by air, Midland being about 20 miles more. if the noise floor does drop, I might be able to use a couple more repeaters. But aside from my 70 centimeter repeater, the rest are all at least 30 miles away. Time will tell...
Wayne WA2YNE On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:05:00 -0500, Ron Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob, > > One other note on the VHF lo and 6 m. 6 might improve due to the HDTV > stations will be able to run considerably lower power. Our Ch 10 on VHF > hi will go from 42 kW RF, 216 kW ERP, to avarage 2 kW with 10 kW peak > RF. They will also like the electric bill more, hi. > > Not sure what power levels will be at VHF lo transmitters, but will > reduce the affects on 6 m. > > For me there is only a ch 3 on VHF lo and it is over 50 miles away. > Nearest ch 2 is over 80 miles. > > 73, ron, n9ee/r > > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: 2008/07/10 Thu AM 10:03:26 EDT >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Measuring Desense > >> >> Regarding the "note" at the end of the article: TV 2, 4 & 5 will go >> dark at >> the analog/DTV cutover in Feb. 2009. Ironically, 6 meters may become >> less >> noisy on Mt. Wilson than UHF. :( >> >> Bob NO6B >> >> -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
