Re: How will the US local area stations commerate the end of System-M?

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 Albert Manfredi <bert22306@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I don't see why that should warrant an extension to the analog shutoff
> date. Sounds more like another delaying tactic to me. As far as I'm
> concerned, the faster analog is shut off, the better. Broadcasters
> will finally optimize their digital plants, and interference from very
> powerful analog stations will finally cease. The spectrum is just too
> crowded as is.

I noticed the other day when I was down in San Antonio that between 
there and here in Austin, the hardest to tune channels have their analog 
on either channel N-1 or N+1. (8-9, 29-30, 42-43) The only Waco station 
I get any signal from is adjacent to its analog channel (25-26), and 
it's hard to tune sometimes too.

There's one case in Austin where two digital channels are adjacent 
(21-22), and those are actually two of the easiest to tune in.

I'm wondering if this is a coincidence, or if an adjacent analog channel 
(even from the same antenna farm) really does make an ATSC station hard 
to tune in.

If this is true, then the shut-off can't come any too soon for me.