At 12:37 PM -0800 3/15/05, Dale Kelly wrote: >Bert wrote: >> Perhaps Dale can expand on the issue of market overlap in the area he >> serves - I believe it is Seattle. > >You must have me confused with someone else, I'm the retired director of >engineering for a company that owns twenty TV stations across the country, >including Los Angeles, San Francisco-Sacramento, Houston, Greensboro, >Fresno, Omaha, etc, etc. >Each market has unique coverage issues but in almost every case, coverage >could be significantly improved by using synchronous repeaters, distributed >transmission or a combination of both. In some cases, translators will also >be used but they are not the major solution. Of course, this is predicated >upon the availability of DTV receivers with acceptable performance, which >the current crop of Plug and Play receivers likely will not exhibit. Sorry for the confusion Dale. You are correct, I was thinking of someone else. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.