UPLINK Activity For the week of Jan 01 06 CES WEEK!

[goaliebob99]

Channel 9 is in the vhf range not the uhf.. channels 15-69 give or take is in the UHF range ...

 

[DishBacker]

Channel 9 is in the vhf range not the uhf.. channels 15-69 give or take is in the UHF range ...

Blasted... I knew I was gonna get those 2 backwards!

 

[StevenD]

WFAA is not a lower power transmitter by any means. Its my strongest channel strength of any OTA channel I get in Flower Mound. It just happens that the its Digital Channel 9, in the UHF range, whereas all the other digital channels are in the VHF range... so it requires an antenna that gets both frequencies.

I am well aware that WFAA is in VHF, whereas all others as in UHF and I have an antenna that picks up both.

Look at the FCC info on all the digital transmitters in the DFW area. WFAA-DT is the LOWEST powered trasmitter around at only 18.6kW.

 

[goaliebob99]

thats sufficcant because its VHF. VHF does not require that much power. I think wbbm here in chicago (cbs) is on 4.4KW of power and is on VHF Channel 3

 

[StevenD]

thats sufficcant because its VHF. VHF does not require that much power. I think wbbm here in chicago (cbs) is on 4.4KW of power and is on VHF Channel 3

It must not be that sufficient as everyone I know in my area receives dropouts on WFAA-DT. I dont get dropouts on any other channel.

 

[BobMurdoch]

I'm guessing they are trying to appease some Congressperson in that area or something. There has to be some other rationale for this....

 

[gbjbany]

50% of US households.

How much of that 50% actually would use it ? If they can get it OTA already then the ROI on the bandwidth used may be much smaller that at first it appears.

 

[goaliebob99]

Channel 467 Order became avaible to subs today Thats it so far.. anything else happens we will be here to report

 

[dfergie]

467 is Pre-Order Morales vs. Pacquiao 1/21 ppv

 

[jmcgee_jr]

WHOOPTY DOO I dont know if its worse for us to have bob tell us or him discovering it and then having to tell us.

 

[JohnH]

Well, I'll share this;

ADDED not available.

206 ERIN, REMOVED FROM Tp 25 on EchoStar 6 at 110w

9427 UNIHD ADDED TO Tp 19 ConUS beam on EchoStar 5 at 129w(Mpeg4 designator in effect)

 

[CJPC]

Thanks, just stab me in the heart why dont ya

So , now just need a 61.5 mirror, and everything is ready to roll, bah!! Makes me wish i had a 411/211 in engineering mode!

 

[goaliebob99]

Thanks John, I didnt even think to bother to check due to todays annoucments Thanks for being on top of things

 

[goaliebob99]

No epg info on UHD yet

 

[mwgiii]

9427 UNIHD ADDED TO Tp 19 ConUS beam on EchoStar 5 at 129w(Mpeg4 designator in effect)

Universal HD in MPEG4 = cry (there is not a crying smile)

Thanks John.

 

[guruka]

Universal HD in MPEG4 = cry (there is not a crying smile)

That doesn't necessarily mean it's actually in MPEG4 now.

.....G

 

[goaliebob99]

That doesn't necessarily mean it's actually in MPEG4 now.

.....G

If john says its in mpg4... thats most likely the case I dont have any reason to doubt otherwise

 

[JohnH]

guruka is correct. I said "designator" not otherwise. It may actually be in Mpeg2. I have no way of checking today.

 

[goaliebob99]

If i had a way to check for you all I would but... Im still working on that and hokie is currently away at CES..

 

[hhkr]

Has anybody actually seen an mpeg4 signal yet, or is this all speculation? I have a 411, but we'll never know if it will actually do mpeg4 and what it looks like until Feb 1st, right?

What if the picture sux??

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Tim