WFXT-DT power increase?
Garrett Wollman
wollman@bimajority.org
Wed Dec 24 13:46:46 EST 2008
<<On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:46:26 -0500, Alexander Svirsky <as@shawsheen.com> said:
> Reasons to return to VHF high-band and take advantage of its excellent
> noise and propagation properties are obvious. Reasons for low-banders
> to move to UHF are also clear. Why would existing UHFs hop around if
> not being kicked out of 700 MHz?
Because transmitters and broadband antennas are not cheap. If you've
already bought the channel 29 transmitter and antenna (let's say), and
90% of your viewers are cable or satellite households who won't notice
anyway, why spend the money to go back to channel 27 when there's no
long-term benefit?
-GAWollman
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