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[A Joseph Ross]

What's CamCom?

On 11/7/2016 10:01 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> Garrett don't forget that WGBH still operates CamCom from Needham. I
> understand paperwork has been done to drop WHDH and add WBTS on Canadian
> systems
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
> wrote:
>
>> <<On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:43:14 -0500, Trip Ericson <
>> webmaster@rabbitears.info> said:
>>
>>> An outdoor antenna should receive WGBX, notwithstanding
>>> interference from other stations, out to at least Webster, Charlton,
>>> Rutland, and Ashburnham, notwithstanding a few really serious
>>> terrain-caused holes, and see increasing terrain blockages west of that.
>> Of course, nobody *has* outdoor antennas any more, and plenty of
>> people in MDUs don't even have the option (the OTARD rule doesn't help
>> unless they have a balcony).
>>
>> Which, again, is a good reason for Comcast not to invest too much into
>> WBTS-LD's OTA signal.  They'd be better off working on direct feeds to
>> the few outlying cable systems they don't already own.  (Satellite may
>> be another story, but I assume the satellite receive sites are
>> reasonably close to Needham anyway.
>>
>> -GAWollman
>>
>>

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