[opendtv] Re: PR: Consumers in 39 Million U.S. Households Cannot Receive Complete Network Digital Service
- From: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:09:38 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> Consumers in 39 Million U.S. Households Cannot Receive Complete
> Network Digital Service
>
> First-Ever Digital Maps Illustrate and Quantify Even Greater Need for
> Speeding up the Digital Transition
>
At least for Illinois, those maps are highly inaccurate,
especially for CBS.
The show what it would be if every station were at full
height and power, and CBS Chicago were at an adequate power
for being on Channel 3 (i.e. 50 kW).
CBS in Chicago, Champaign and Peoria are at very low power (2 kW),
channels 3 and 48 and ?. None is anywhere near adequate, though
Chicago is officially "full power", to cover their analog areas.
NBC in central Illinois is also low power, as is Fox in
Peoria. Fox is not even on the air for east central Illinois
(though in Champaign we see the benefits of high power UHF
digital as most of us get reliable reception at 60-70 miles
from Springfield.) They were supposed to be on as Fox went
HD, but some part is missing .... due to software. A pointed
question: is this missing software being written in Tiajuana :-) :-)
The low power stations near me do, however, cover the city of
license quite well.
Doug McDonald
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