extending FM band down to 76 MHz

[Peter Q. George]

Could WRGB go back to their pre-transition Channel 39?  Why not. What would be the limiting factor in going back?  Channel 6 was great for analog use.  For DTV, on the other hand, it's a disaster.  I'm sure that there is enough UHF space in the Capital District to put WRGB back to UHF. I believe it would be far enough away from WSBK-39.

I think that the FCC made a big mistake in cleaning out UHF Channels 52-69 for land-mobile, in the first place.  Those channels would have had ample  space so that ALL full-powered TV stations could go DTV with plenty of room to spare for NEW stations and all LPTV's and translators.  VHF-hi would be fine for other uses other than TV.  VHF-lo (5 and 6 would be perfect for the expanded FM).  

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
"Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:

> From: Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Subject: Re: extending FM band down to 76 MHz
> To: "Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>, "BostonRadio Mailing List" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>, "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@mail.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 11:13 AM
> But there are places, such as
> Philadelphia, where, apparently, no UHF
> allocations exist for the VHF TVs to move their DTV
> signals. WPVI is
> therefore stuck on Channel 6. (In Schenectady, WRGB is also
> stuck on
> channel 6, but through its own pig-headedness; a lot of
> people in the
> Capital District must be saying, "I told you so." Maybe
> there is a UHF
> channel or a high-band V channel that it could use.) Now
> high-band V,
> though not as good for DTV as UHF, is better for DTV than
> low-band V,
> and I don't think any station in Philadelphia has taken
> over Channel
> 10, which was used there for Analog TV. So if you accept
> 174-216 MHz
> for DTVs that couldn/t find a home on UHF, maybe it would
> be possible
> to clear all TVs off of Channels 5 and 6.
> 
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>
> To: "BostonRadio Mailing List"
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>;
> "Bob Nelson"
> <raccoonradio@mail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:45 AM
> Subject: Re: extending FM band down to 76 MHz
> 
> 
> > It makes sense.  Both VHF-lo and VHF-hi have been
> proven in the
> > "real world" to be totally sub-par for Digital
> Television compared
> > to UHF, >
> 
> > Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
> > Whitman, Massachusetts
> > "Scanning the bands since 1967"
> > radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
> >
> 
>