ralphnjoann
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After purchasing two of the converter boxes to use with our analog TV sets, I now learn that we won't have digital TV come next February. The reason? We live in an area served by repeaters, or translators as they sometimes called. We don't receive our signal directly from the station's tower because it is too far away; rather, it comes from a nearby repeater. Unlike TV stations, these repeaters are not required to transmit a digital signal, and many may not due to cost factors. Bummer!
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CISCO8325
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a repeater is exactly what it is. It repeats the signal exactly it recieved to you because your far away. I don't understand how if the digital signal is sent and is repeated you wont get your signal...since digital signal will happen it will be in a different band width and the signal will travel futher. I think you will have no problem gettin your signal.
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ralphnjoann
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CISCO8325 wrote:a repeater is exactly what it is. It repeats the signal exactly it recieved to you because your far away. I don't understand how if the digital signal is sent and is repeated you wont get your signal...since digital signal will happen it will be in a different band width and the signal will travel futher. I think you will have no problem gettin your signal. "But the law does not require "low power" television (LPTV) stations to go digital. These smaller LPTV stations, and low power "translator" stations that boost a signal's strength at distances far from the station's main transmitter, may continue broadcasting in analog after February 17, 2009."
Source: http://www.lptvanswers.com/ and http://antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx
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tom_kat
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just hooked one up in the rv i lost a few channels but gained some, every channel i pick up has 3 seperate channels instead of one, instead of just channel 10 i get 10-1 10-2 and 3 they all have differant programs on them ,and they come in better then they did befor, when all the stations change over i should get a bunch more.so far i like it.
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pulsar
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ralphnjoann wrote:CISCO8325 wrote:a repeater is exactly what it is. It repeats the signal exactly it recieved to you because your far away. I don't understand how if the digital signal is sent and is repeated you wont get your signal...since digital signal will happen it will be in a different band width and the signal will travel futher. I think you will have no problem gettin your signal. "But the law does not require "low power" television (LPTV) stations to go digital. These smaller LPTV stations, and low power "translator" stations that boost a signal's strength at distances far from the station's main transmitter, may continue broadcasting in analog after February 17, 2009."
Source: http://www.lptvanswers.com/ and http://antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx
Do you believe the translators are going to put in the equipment to change the signal from digital to analog; they will be receiving a digital signal and if all they do is repeat it, then you will get a digital signal.
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hwybnb
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So you think the repeater is going to convert the digital signal back to analog? Please explain how it is going to do that. A repeater repeats, period.
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ralphnjoann
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hwybnb wrote:So you think the repeater is going to convert the digital signal back to analog? Please explain how it is going to do that. A repeater repeats, period. Come on guys, I don't pretend to be an expert about this stuff. All I know is what I read. I've heard the term "repeater" and "translator" used interchangeably, but "repeater" may be a poor choice of words on my part. It seems to me you're digressing from the point of the post which is not everybody will have digital TV come next year. If the source I cited is correct, what's the problem?
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CISCO8325
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I'm saying that a repeater will just boost the signal when its weak. It wont change it from anolog to digital. Just boost the signal. when the conversion change over happens your locaton will probly change to boost the signal to digital. If not dont know how they plan to convert it. You just have to wait and see..LOL
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hwybnb
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You are probably talking about translators, not repeaters.
A TV translator station rebroadcasts the programs of a full-power TV broadcast station. They typically serve communities that cannot receive the signals of free over-the-air TV stations because they are too far away from a full-power TV station or because of geography (such as uneven terrain or mountains). Many translator stations operate in mountainous or more remote areas of the country.
Translator stations are exempt from the digital conversion mandate. They may choose to convert or not.
Some of the digital converter boxes available now have the ability to pass through stations that continue to broadcast analog. Users living in or traveling to areas served by both full power stations and translators should have that type of converter.
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This is an interesting question that I asked our FCC attys. about last week just out of curiosity (and they didn't know): After the cut-over, assuming that LP, and Class-A (along with translators) stay analog, how many of the 10% (that's all who are OTA only) will NOT be in range of ATSC transmitters, and still only see the above analog services? Once you get out of the metro areas, LP's, etc. are all there is.
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