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« on: December 12, 2009, 10:40 am »

Update on WMTV's power increase...

The tower crew arrived on Monday 12/7, had to wait out the snowstorm, and began rigging the tower Friday 12/11.  The new DTV antenna should arrive the week of December 14th.

Frequent updates at http://www.twitter.com/WMTVtech
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« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2009, 12:32 am »

Hey Tom, you must have had the best seat in the house for watching the Rayovac fire.  Grin

FYI my signal strength drops from the high 70s to low 60s (S/N ~22dB, from ~30dB) when you're operating at reduced power.  I run out of error correction about five times a second at those levels.  Normally I get a virtually perfect (corrected) stream.

I live practically in the shadow of your tower, so when you install the new antenna, I'd be much obliged if you phased it for...oh, maybe a -45 degree beam tilt.  Wink


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