Not many people get inside Sutro Tower, so I consider myself pretty fortunate. My current employer doesn’t have transmit facilities[…]
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Treating analog TV transmitters like sickly inmates on death row. Keep ‘em alive… For now…
All across the nation there are TV stations headed toward the analog shutdown mandated by congress on February 17th, 2009.[…]
Read moreAh, the smell of something free…
It’s a new year and as of the first of the year every Sally-Shopper and Johnny-Bag-O-Donuts is eligible for their[…]
Read moreDTV Transition
For the old…. err.. “seasoned” television viewer that doesn’t understand what a “Tivo” is and still tunes in to re-runs[…]
Read moreNAB 2007 REVIEW
For several years I have been attending the NAB convention and this year I was asked to craft a report[…]
Read moreHDTV and Me (and my soapbox)…
I am a fond proponent and avid ‘flag waver’ of local broadcasting and free HDTV and I would be happy[…]
Read moreKHOG RF Combiner
Since a new tower had been erected in 1997 with HDTV in mind, it already featured a broadband RFS panel[…]
Read moreHDTV Transmitter Installation
For this facility (KHOG) the gain of the antenna was considerable so that only about 10kW TPO would be needed[…]
Read moreHDTV Encoding Rack Design
Here is a project I am justifiably proud of. Our corporate engineering management had determined that we were to use[…]
Read moreDTV Antenna Installation
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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