DTS means you are granted a coverage area from your "primary" station
unless the FCC decides to assign a fixed circle for LPTV like they did full
powers. My take, as of today, is if your station's 51 dBu, UHF, goes out 25
miles, you can place small transmitter on the same channel within that
contour and none of these small transmitters 51 dBu can go outside of the
"primary" station's 51 dBu. You can get interference between the small
transmitters where their contours overlap even if they are locked, so you
have to be creative to make those overlaps occur over low populated areas
and hope the homes are using directional antennas aimed at one or the other
small station.
DTS is VERY helpful if you have a hill blocking your signal or you have a
large area and you are wanting to make as much of it 80 dBu (Rabbit Ears
coverage) level. You can make an LPTV look like a full power station. I
cannot stress how important it is to make your 80 dBu cover as many people
as you can. This is a minimal receive antenna world which make no sense when
you can spend $100 for an outside antenna and get 5x more channels.
If the FCC sticks with the 51 dBu plan, LPTV stations may apply on tall
tower to increase the 51 dBucontour, then build many small sites. Would also
aid those that still feel LPTV can be used to supply internet by creating
small cell sties and locking them all together as much as they can. But how
do you compete with paying an extra $20.00 a month to make your Straight
Talk phone a hot spot. Folks out in the country simply get a bigger antenna
for their cell phones and save a lot of money.
Anyway, that is this old guys take on things.
Rick Goetz
R & L Media Systems
rickg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: lptv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lptv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jon C. Moon
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 2:20 PM
To: lptv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lptv] Re: DTS rule change
Not sure what the argument against that would be. A DTS transmitter is a
legally approved transmitter for a broadcast station and if it's within 35
miles of a headend, I'd say the LPTV Must Carry rules would apply. You just
need to make sure the signal is sufficient and meet all the other
requirements for Must Carry. My 2 cents worth anyways.
Jon C. Moon
Ridgeline TV Channel 99
706-897-0872
www.ridgelinetv.net <http://www.ridgelinetv.net/>
On Jan 22, 2021, at 1:15 PM, Keith Leitch <keith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi LPTV Loopers,
Do you think that I have the correct interpretation of the LPTV Must-Carry
Rules that a second DTS transmit facility could be used to meet the 35 mile
rule to feed a cable headend?
Some
<https://www.commlawcenter.com/2010/05/some-lptv-stations-have-must-carry-ri
ghts-too.html> LPTV Stations Have Must-Carry Rights Too - Comm Law Center -
May 11, 2010
Blessings,
Keith
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From: lptv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <lptv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
RabbitEars Webmaster <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:38 AM
To: lptv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <lptv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Richard Goetz
<rickg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lptv] Re: DTS rule change
The new rules will permit LPTVs to operate DTS facilities. See paragraphs
29-33.
- Trip
www.rabbitears.info <http://www.rabbitears.info/>
On 1/22/21 10:36 AM, Richard Goetz wrote:
As for DTS, at this time, it does not apply to LPTV. Do not know about
Class A.
Rick Goetz
R & L Media Systems
rickg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
