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Post by kenglish on Sept 19, 2012 16:07:15 GMT -6
The first stage of the RF sweep work will be done on the weekend of September 22-24. That's THIS WEEKEND.
All of the DTV Utah stations will be off the air during the following hours:
Saturday September 22nd, 12AM to 6AM (Friday night) Sunday September 23rd, 12AM to 6AM (Saturday night) Sun-Mon September 24th, 11PM to 4AM (Sunday night)
There will continue to be service via Comcast, on analog, SDTV and HDTV on stations that have direct fiber-optic feeds to Comcast's Salt lake City headend facility.
There will be no service via over the air, translators, DirecTV (SDTV and HDTV) or DISH Network (SDTV and HDTV) during those hours. Some stations have had direct feeds to the local satellite pickup point, but those are not in service at this time. All satellite pickup is now via the over the air signals.
The October work will be done on a similar schedule, October 13-15.
Only DTV Utah stations are affected. These are KUTV (2), KTVX (4), KSL (5), KUED (7), KULC (9), KBYU (11), KJZZ (14) and KUCW (30), and all of their sub-channels.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Sept 19, 2012 20:42:32 GMT -6
Thanks for the heads up. As long as Doctor Who on KUED finishes before the outage starts (should be done by 11:45) then I'm good. And of course the engineers care a great deal about what I think. ;D
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Post by kenglish on Sept 26, 2012 9:37:09 GMT -6
The engineers on Farnsworth reported that they found serious deterioration of the "bullets", which fit between center sections of the transmission line in the main antenna. Those will have to be replaced. This is part of the normal wear-and-tear of the system, due to expansion and contraction, but it could have become a serious problem. The sweep in October will check for similar problems in the back-up antenna system. Nice little article and photos here, of the type thing that we're talking about: radiomagonline.com/transmission/towers/transmission-line-maintenance//index2.html
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Sept 27, 2012 4:38:58 GMT -6
A little pain now might save a lot of pain later, especially when something decides to go out in the middle of Sunday primetime.
Thanks Ken.
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