[Amps] Amplified TV Antenna

[Rob Atkinson]

ABC Chicago stuck with channel 7 virtual and real which turned out to
be a big mistake.  One problem was that there was another station on 7
in Grand Rapids MI.  They are still on 7 but also they are on 44 after
WSNS-TV left 44.  They had a rock solid analog signal on 7 out here 40
miles west of Sears but when they went digital on 7 they vanished.
With the Ch. 44 fix they are okay here again.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 9:07 PM, W2XJ <w2xj at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> The statement regarding WBBM is not really correct and is typical of why
> we should be cautious when reading things on the Internet and taking the
> information as fact.
>
>  From the mouths of my corporate CBS colleagues at the time, WBBM was a
> science project. It would have been conducted in New York at WCBS except
> that there was a nearby channel 3 analog. The problem at the time was
> that there was an awesome responsibility on the shoulders of corporate
> engineering staff over giving up legacy low band channels for UHF and
> potentially hurting the brand or sticking with the legacy channels. WBBM
> DT was originally on CH-3 and WCBS DT was on CH 56 as a transition
> channel. Many measurements were made along with other tests. The WBBM
> experiment was not a train wreck it was a very necessary experiment.
>
> What is closer to being a train wreck was when ABC hired, at great cost,
> a consultant who advised them to keep their original VHF channels. The
> result was emergency plea to the FCC to increase power on channel 7 and
> a real train wreck in Philadelphia on CH 6.
>
> ABC=paying too much to consultants for bad info while CBS=intelligent
> science based on real world measurements and research from in house
> engineers.
>