[opendtv] Re: Fixing VHF DTV Reception Problems

Doug McDonald wrote:
 
>> It's really frustrating that this sort of
>> egregiously poor planning was allowed to go
>> on for years, without a single test until
>> after the transition was over.
>
> Poppycock! There were tests, such as Ch. 3
> digital in Chicago ... which was a well-known
> disaster.
 
Yes, but I don't live in Chicago, and the Wash and Balt stations that went back 
to VHF went to high VHF exclusively. What I meant was, these four stations 
should have found a way to test their VHF transition, maybe after midnight, 
DURING the transition. While they were still transmitting digital in UHF.
 
I think what happened was that the FCC got tunnel vision looking at the results 
of their favorite signal propagation model, and never stepped back to do the 
smell test. Try other models, for example. Or look at that A/54 rule of thumb 
and wonder why you're so far off. Simple stuff like that.
 
Bert
 
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