[opendtv] Re: 20040722 Thundering Thursday Thanks (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:26:36 -0400
I believe that the receiver was a "non-standard" LG LST-3100A with the
new 5th GEN chip. The "standard" 3100A is a 4th GEN box that most likely
would not have worked. This is an "I THINK" statement, but needs to be
confirmed...
Mark Schubin wrote:
>SPECIAL! DTT in the U.S. Works!
>
>Count me among the believers in the 5th-generation LG/Zenith ATSC receiver!
>
>We just did a test, this morning, in my apartment, and I thought the
>news was too important not to release immediately. Present were two
>senior research engineers from LG Electronics in Korea, Bob Miller and
>an associate from Viacel, and Richard Bogner and an associate. Miller
>had arranged for the test in my apartment. The receiver was the LG
>LST-3100A.
>
>With a simple loop antenna, with NO care in the positioning, we were
>able to pull in seven DTT stations reliably. When I say "reliably," I
>mean not only that the pictures and sound were okay but that people
>could move around the room and I could move the antenna around without
>causing any breakup. It WAS possible for me to find an orientation
>where I could make it fail, but I really had to try, even on WNYW-DT,
>which could previously be received only with the antenna on the floor.
> That's a big jump from previously trying to find an orientation (and
>position) where I could make it work. For the first time, I could
>receive signals (six channels) from an antenna atop my TV, where I
>normally get analog channels. I received three channels reliably from
>New Jersey. We got the same results with the classic Radio Shack dual
>bow-tie with reflector, but other (fancier) antennas did not work as well.
>
>The only channel I have previously received that I could not get this
>morning was (which we confirmed with a spectrum analyzer) off the air.
> Two of the other channels I could not receive are operating at very low
>power, and one has its transmissions beamed away from me.
>
>I now believe that any shmo with reception conditions similar to mine
>can simply take the receiver out of the box, connect a cheap loop
>antenna, stick it wherever it looks good, and start to receive ATSC
>signals from all full-power, full-pattern stations.
>
>There has been a breakthrough! YAY! Congratulations to LG/Zenith! Let
>the transition move forward!
>
>For the record, the channels I received were: WCBS-DT, WNBC-DT, WNYW-DT
>(which carries WWOR as a subchannel), WABC-DT, WPXN-DT, WNJN-DT, and
>WFME-DT.
>
>TTFN,
>Mark
>
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Regards,
Mark A. Aitken Director, Advanced Technology
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