[PVRCNC] WUNC TV tower

[Kent Winrich]

I just tried to get WUNC DTV last night.  I NORMALLY get them just
fine.  It appears they are having issues.  I wrote an email to them
last night and have nit heard back yet.  These UHF transmitter have a
number of ?cabinets (each one carrying a IOT tube and then combined.
One of the cabinets may be out therefore limiting the range of the
station.  If I hear back from WUNC I will let you know

Kent Winrich
K9EZ/4/lid/b0zo
Fuquay-Varina, NC
BroadcastPro.Biz


On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Steve Jackson <kz1x at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brian K3KO mentions a challenge picking HDTV signals up from the NCPTV "Chatham" TV tower.  Map-wise, the tower is located just south of the Orange-Chatham county line, slightly to the west of Jones Ferry Road and generally southwest of Carrboro.
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>  I guess it's already been figured out that the VHF-4 output (60 kW visual) at this site is only NTSC.  I will miss that mode when it's relegated to history, coming up soon.  I also wonder who will get to use the parts from thousands of obsolete multi-kW NTSC VHF transmitters?  There are two at the Ch. 4 site alone, and one of them is solid-state.
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>  There are several amateur services also located on this tower, which is only a few miles from my house.  (It's even closer to Rob KA1ARB.)  OCRA operates a UHF and a 6 meter repeater there, and PCRN operates a 2 meter repeater.  All the antennas for these are on the comms platform at 1000' and that puts them at 1760' above ground.  How do I know?  I was one of the guys who planned and executed the installation.  Quite a view from up there.
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>  Also on this tower, but a little lower, is the 162.55 MHz NOAA weather channel.
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>  Try picking one of these signals on the ham bands, to see about path to this tower from where you are.  It can be handy to correct for azimuth errors, and overall is a good way to really experience differences of propagation, based on wavelength, above 30 MHz.
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