DTV issues

[Mark Casey]

That makes sense. Every station engineer that I've talked to has said that 
the digital has a factor to makeup for the lower number.

Peak vs. average power ratings are a big difference no matter which way it 
is figured.

With that method, then the electric bill for stations running full power in 
digital might not be much less than analog.

Mark Casey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
To: "Mark Casey" <map@mapinternet.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 2:24 PM
Subject: DTV issues


  DTV
power is average power (I think RMS but I'm not sure).  Analog power
is peak power.  The peak-to-average ratio of analog TV is significant
(I believe it's about 5:1).