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  • More Transmitter Caps Gone Bad

    March 5, 2015 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, TV
  • A New Transmitter Problem – ‘Paper Cap’ Short!

    March 2, 2015 Sean T. DTV, HDTV
  • 20.4% of US Broadcasters are ‘Transmitting’ Mobile-TV? Seriously?

    June 23, 2013 Sean T. DTV, MobileDTV, rant, TV
  • Old Media Takes It On The Chin From Scott Adams – Inadvertently.

    April 27, 2010 Sean T. Computers, Fun, rant, TV
  • iPad Mobile DTV FAIL [Pic]

    April 12, 2010 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, NAB, TV
  • A Good Engineer Is Hard To Find… For TV Anyway.

    April 5, 2010 Sean T. Computers, Education, HDTV, rant, TV
  • Terrestrial Radio. It’s as bad as I remember.

    April 2, 2010 Sean T. Fun, rant
  • Cable’s Latest Attempt to Elminate Local Channel Carriage

    December 12, 2009 Sean T. Cable, rant, TV

Latest Posts

minor brush with fame

October 5, 2007 Sean T. Fun

After working all night at one of my employer’s analog transmitter sites, I had arranged to catch a flight out[…]

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rage against the corporate slogan machine

September 15, 2007 Sean T. Fun

If you work in a medium to large office you probably have several of those posters glamorizing “Teamwork”, “Courage” or[…]

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The best $600 router project for my $60.

July 15, 2007 Sean T. Computers, Electronics, Fun, Hacks, Projects

I have heard of this custom, free firmware called DD-WRT for a while now, but I needed to purchase a[…]

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NAB 2007 REVIEW

April 24, 2007 Sean T. HDTV, NAB

For several years I have been attending the NAB convention and this year I was asked to craft a report[…]

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A new network identity. Thank the stars!

July 1, 2005 Sean T. TV

Today PaxTV (Paxson Communications – my current employer) begins to dig itself out of the ratings hole it has worked[…]

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HDTV and Me (and my soapbox)…

October 1, 2004 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, rant

I am a fond proponent and avid ‘flag waver’ of local broadcasting and free HDTV and I would be happy[…]

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KHOG RF Combiner

September 1, 2002 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, Projects

Since a new tower had been erected in 1997 with HDTV in mind, it already featured a broadband RFS panel[…]

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HDTV Transmitter Installation

September 1, 2002 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, Projects

For this facility (KHOG) the gain of the antenna was considerable so that only about 10kW TPO would be needed[…]

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HDTV Encoding Rack Design

May 1, 2002 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, Projects

Here is a project I am justifiably proud of. Our corporate engineering management had determined that we were to use[…]

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DTV Antenna Installation

March 1, 2002 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, Projects

A few grainy images of the Andrew side-mounted antenna we ordered for the KHBS DTV transmitter in Poteau, Oklahoma (which[…]

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