[opendtv] Re: Transition Begins?
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:50:38 -0700
So, I am to be led to believe that you suppositions are better than my
frequency searches? On what planet?
First, few people know how to do real frequency searches. After much trial
and error, I figured out more than 20 years ago, you do it backwards: you
show the INTERFERENCE area created by each station, and you look into the
white areas. Most people do it stupidly, or forwards: can I apply for
channel x through y here?
I'll bet you $1,000 that you cannot find a useable frequency (in other
words, at a buildable site) in Santa Barbara. Hint: I've actually done the
field and leg work, and finding a frequency is the EASY part! Second hint:
these people already had a site. Then, when you start playing off
"population served" versus the available (few) buildable sites, the
situation becomes clearer.
Something else: the interference rules were changed (loosened) when the FCC
adopted the DTV r&o and the LPTV Class A upgrade window.
In NYC, the problem was not the lack of useable sites. It probably had more
to do with "I don't want to run a TV station on three different channels."
Funny how you don't seem to understand these considerations; I guess it's
just too much detail for you.
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:46 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Transition Begins?
> NYC where I have watched as a friend discovered and took advantage of
> three "frequencies" that had been combed over for years by many others
> who found nothing. He now has those three frequencies that cover most of
> the city as LPTV stations.
>
> You may be right and there are no possibilities in Santa Barbara. I am
> sure they looked but I wouldn't be surprised if there is something there.
>
> Also this station didn't make any decision in the early 1990's, they
> didn't exist then. They were granted a construction permit for channel
> 55 on March 17th 2005. That is more than a year after Qualcomm won that
> channel at auction and they have been quite vocal that they intended to
> do something with it as soon as possible.
>
> If they could not find something in the core to move to why bother with
> 55 at all? Or second best find something unowned above the core. That
> way they might have a few years.
>
> One other question. You say with a few frequency searches you eliminated
> any possible station they could have moved to. But 55 must have been
> available since they did find that one.
>
> And my friend who discovered those LPTV stations in NYC didn't do it
> with a few frequency searches. It took him years of looking and fiddling
> as far as I could see.
>
> Bob Miller
>
>
>
>
> John Willkie wrote:
>
> >Having done a few frequency searches in the Santa Barbara area (and
finding
> >no channels available at ANY site in the early 1990's) the answer is
easy:
> >there were no other better choices.
> >
> >Exactly what world do you live in?
> >
> >John Willkie
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 2:07 PM
> >Subject: [opendtv] Transition Begins?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I have been told that Qualcomm is forcing an LPTV station #55 off the
> >>air in Santa Barbara. If so I think this would be the first shot in the
> >>coming transition. Why this station, K46GC, moved from a core channel,
> >>46, to an out of core channel, 55, is beyond me. Especially since this
> >>channel 55 has already been sold to Qualcomm.
> >>
> >>Bob Miller
> >>
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