Info on Channel 22

[Gregg Lengling]

Here's the info I received from Andy Eliason from Channels 30 and 22.
Thanks for the report.  We also have been pleased
with the signal stregnth, and it seems to do
very well to the West as well.  We are finding
consistent reception in Brookfield also. We use
a directional antenna which attenuates over the
lake and has higher gain N,W,S.

As for the video we are relaying, you are correct.
We have presently a precision and quite expensive
demodulator picking up the NTSC signal, but as
the recieve antenna is located high up on the
MATC tower, we are experiancing some really bad
multipath problems from the tower guylines, and
steel structure itself.

We are planning a digital microwave system to
deliver the programming directly from the studio
to the DTV site, but due to financial limitations
this has been delayed.  When the microwave is
installed a lot of the group delay artifacts from
the signal passing thru the NTSC system will be
resolved.

I want to also let you know that our programming
verys wildly between programs as to the quality
of the video.  Some of the programs origionate
on consumer grade VHS, which in my personal opinion
is not airworthy.  However these productions are
not uncommonly the only format available for a
particular show--and as produced, were never
expected to meet broadcast standards, but rather
taped for VHS home use.

In the next few weeks we will be relocating
our receive antenna, and also making some
adjustments to some internal noise reduction
filters on the mpeg coder which should reduce
the ringing and echos you see presently.

I'm curious if you could tell me what brand
of receiver or converter box you are using?
Our Samsung receiver/converter boxes are showing
us as channel 22-1.  Our RCA unit shows us as
22-3.  This we are anticipating resolving soon
as possible.  We find the RCA interprets the
minor channel as the program I.D, where as the
Samsung reads the major program number we have
set in our coder and the minor as well as set
in our programming equipment. Hopefully we will
be seen only as 22-1 only once the work is
completed.

Thanks for the report, and glad to meet another
ham operator.

Andy Eliason, KA9DOL
WVCY-TV CE

[Matt Heebner]

On my RCA DTC-100, 22 digital shows up as  22-1 with a pretty solid strength of about 70.
I commend WVCY for getting their signal up and going before bigger and better financed stations did. Kudos to you. Even thoug i am not a viewer of this station, I find it great that they are also planning to get the best signal that they can up and running as fast as they can . There is something to be said with that!
FAUX, UPN and WB can and should take note of this!


Matt