Bob Miller wrote: > > And you are complaining about power levels? You need more power than > they do in the UK where COFDM is used? **I** am not complaining ... people halfway or 5/8 way between here and Chicago are. At 11 miles, 1 kW is just fine, completely fine, for indoor recption. At 50 miles it is hopeless. > I thought that COFDM needed more > power. It does. > We should LOWER the power levels in the US with 8-VSB to the > average power level in the UK or ONE kW. And then nobody in the fringe could ge reception. > And they report perfect reception from 200 Watt transmitters at 30 > miles. With indoor simple antennas? **at 25 mB/sec in their 8 MHz cxhannels? I think not. I had no trouble getting one of our stations 16 miles away with 1 kW and a 180 foot tower. 200 watts at 30 miles will be fine with a good antenna outdoors and a transmitter tower high enough to be above the horizon. And note .... if 200 watts works with COFDM, 100 watts will work with 8-VSB. You simply can't get aroound this ... COFDM at the same bitrate per Hz takes twice the power. Doug McDonald ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.