Will the ATSC 3.0 survive the E-skips on VHF low band?

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N5XZS

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Jan 23, 2005
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I am wondering ATSC 3.0 will do a better job surviving the skips path on VHF low band rf ch. 2 to 6 by using COFDEM instead of 8VSB modes?

That is big question for TV DXers!:hungry
 
IDK, but isn't COFDM (COFDEM?) used in DVB-T? (What the a great majority of rest of the world adopted for digital Television)
 
That is big question for TV DXers!:hungry
I expect that ATSC 3.0 will exact at least as much damage to the sport of DXing as DTV did and in the end, it will become practically impossible. With analog, we had our brains that would filter the video and audio noise but with digital, there's not enough forward error correcting you can do that will clean up a signal that depends on getting highly compressed binary data through.
 
Bumping up, for this E-skips season for ATSC 3.0, will ATSC 3.0 do a better job decoding than the old ATSC 1.0 on the VHF-LOW band? :cool: :hungry2:hatsoff2
 

What is the most sensitive tuner available?

Talk about DXing!