I used to live in a small town in Northern California. Every few months, one of the 4 translators they had running on the ridgetop would get crystal-clear while the other 3 would be fuzzy as hell.
Finally I asked the locals about it. It seems you are not a local in that town unless you have been there at least 20+ years. The locals told me that the "good translator" is used for whatever sporting season it was! So Baseball was on Channel X so it got the good translator that season, then when football started on channel Y it would get the good translator. I love small towns! ryan Chuck McCown wrote: > Perhaps the question was a little more general. > A TV translator is nothing more than a repeater. > For example channel 6 would be received, "translated" to channel 55 and > retransmitted. > > Normally they were VHF in and UHF out. Low power. 2 to 200 watts. > > Out west, where we have lots of mountain ranges and valleys, this is the way > TV got piped around. > Some special tax districts were formed to finance the operations of > translator installations. Many small towns would have a building on a > nearby hilltop with a half dozen translators inside. In some cases > translators were daisy chained 3 or 4 deep. > > In other areas, groups of TV broadcasters got together and financed the > translators. > > I would suspect that even if a translator operator isn't going to change to > HDTV, they will most likely feed the input of their translator with a signal > derived from and HDTV signal. That will produce much better quality than > they ever had before. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:02 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] DTV transition..... FACT or FICTION? > > > >> The R&O states what each type of station is and what it does. >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "CHUCK PROFITO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:55 AM >> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] DTV transition..... FACT or FICTION? >> >> >>> George, >>> What do you mean by term 'translator'(is that the brunette between the >>> blond >>> and redhead?) >>> >>> Chuck Profito >>> 209-988-7388 >>> CV-ACCESS, INC >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Providing High Speed Broadband >>> to Rural Central California >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>> Behalf Of George Rogato >>> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:31 AM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: [WISPA] DTV transition..... FACT or FICTION? >>> >>> >>> >>> I was talking to one of the tv stations engineers out here on the coast. >>> He has a translator here. >>> >>> I asked him how soon would we be seeing the DTV conversion. >>> >>> His answer is, not any time soon and we must have mis understood the >>> situation. >>> >>> Translators are EXEMPT from having to go digital, and to boot, he said, >>> out of 8,000 broadcasters nation wide, only 25% or so HAVE to convert, >>> all the others, on translators, don't have to. >>> >>> Anyone else hear this or know differently? >>> >>> >>> George >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> WISPA Wants You! 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