[SBE] DTV Reception Problem Article

[Dan Slentz]

Carl,
I'm the director of engineering for WSFL TV in Miami/Fort Lauderdale.  We have a sister newspaper which has had many articles about digital TV.  The writer recently wrote that buying a "digital TV antenna" will help receive the picture better.  I took pictures of all my digital antennas (at home and in the office) and sent them to him.  I took a paper clip and bent it so I could push it into the F-connector and extended it up.  They work incredibly well in a big city with no hills.  I offered to sell this write my "digital antennas" for $7.95 each.


--- On Sun, 2/1/09, Carl Sundberg <carlesundberg at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Carl Sundberg <carlesundberg at yahoo.com>
Subject: [SBE] DTV Reception Problem Article
To: "sbe member discussion mail list" <sbe at sbe.org>
Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 2:07 PM





Hi All,

As the acting Chief of an NBC affiliate, I get the calls when listeners have problems making their DTV receivers and converter boxes work. Over time, most of the problems I have found were related to ATSC's greatest weakness, Multipath.

Since I thought high school broadcast engineering for 28 years, I found that anyone can understand even the most complex concepts if it was put in a way they could relate. Toward that end, I have written a simple explanation of why DTV is difficult for some to receive it well and reliably. I have found that when people understand the challenge, they find ways to cope with it better and have more success.

In the past, I have tried to attach articles to this forum with no success, so this time I am only including a download link to the "Word" document. Click on it and you should be able to download it. If you wish to use it on a web page, please do so and it is OK to delete the author information. Getting the information out is what's important.

The link is: http://www.2xpi.org/downloads/Understanding Digital TV Reception Problems.doc

I put it on a personal web site that I use once in a while to babble on about weird physics phenomena that I observe from time to time.

 Carl Sundberg
3318 Coraly Ave.
Eugene, OR 97402-6544


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