DTV Utah Planned Outage: Part 2

[kenglish]

The final stage of the RF sweep work will be done on the weekend of October 13-15. That's THIS WEEKEND.

All of the DTV Utah stations will be off the air during the following hours:

Saturday October 13th, 12AM to 6AM (Friday night)
Sunday October 14th, 12AM to 6AM (Saturday night)
Sun-Mon October 15th, 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 DTV Utah stations, kUTV(2), KTVX(4), KSL(5) KUED(7), KUEN(9), KBYU(11), KJZZ(14), and KUCW(30) will be off the air during late-night and early morning hours of the weekend of October 13-15, for work on the DTV antenna and combiner system. This may also include kPNZ and other UHF stations located on the Farnsworth Peak site.

Low-powered RF sweep work (checking all of the tuning of the system) requires the stations to be off the air.

[CAwasinNJ]

Thanks for the heads up.

A few nights ago KUTV 2 was off that air for hours overnight, though nothing else was. Do you happen to know if that was related or just something with them?

[kenglish]

A crew is on the mountain, to replace the bad transmission line section (a 20-foot section of 6-1/8 inch diameter line) on the upper DTV antenna. They will move several stations to the backup tower at midnight Saturday night, with a possible 5 minute outage. There will be some testing, then the crews will climb at 8:00 AM on Sunday.

It may be possible to do the work with all TV stations at full power, or they may have to take some down to half-power. No one is sure until they get up there.

Hopefully, they will be done around 4:00 PM Sunday.