Mobile DTV on the cheap

[Chip Fetrow]

WBAL flash-cut back to 11, just like WJLA and WUSA.  One of the sad  
things is that places like Best Buy never bothered to figure out that  
some stations would move to, or go back to High Band.  They sold UHF  
"HDTV" antennas.  For some really stupid reason they cover all the way  
up to channel 69.

WBAL is licensed at 5 kW, but they have an Application for 26.6 kW.

WJLA has applied for a Digital Translator ON THIER TOWER on channel  
39, 825 Watts.

Just goes to show how bad the high-band stations are doing.  Low band  
is quite the mess, it's noisy there.

--chip

On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:26 AM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:08:49 -0500
> From: wb4jfi <wb4jfi at knology.net>
> Subject: Re: Mobile DTV on the cheap
> [...]
> Not really bait & switch.  Many stations went back to their analog VHF
> channel assignments, so the power required to cover the same area on  
> VHF
> can be much less than UHF.  W*USA and WJLA were two stations in DC  
> that
> did, and I'm assuming WBAL went back to 11 as well.
> [...]
> Terry