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Old July 13th 08, 04:01 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated
D. Stussy D. Stussy is offline
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Default TV frequencies up for grabs- lets lobby now

"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
news On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:57:59 -0400, D. Stussy wrote:
"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
news On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:53:44 -0400, D. Stussy wrote:
Well, here in Southern California (Los Angeles + San Diego), each of 7

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13 is
actually occupied with a full-power TV station and will continue to be

..
The
odd channels are for LA and the evens for SD (12 for Tijuana, Mexico).


At least the interim channel for the Tijuana station is 32 - it's uncle

ar
to me as to whether Mexican stations will be allowed to return their DT

V
operations to their current analog channels.

"What DTV operations?" Mexico decided to keep analog TV through 2025.


Mexico is phasing in DTV just as we are - they're just taking a lot longe
r
to do it. There is already a full slate of DTV stations in Tijuana -
starting with XETV's on channel 23. DTV stations are on the air in
several other border cities (Juarez, for one) and in Monterrey.

If they don't change their rules before then, there will indeed continue
to be analog TV stations in Mexico until 2025 - but by then there will
also be a full complement of digital stations.

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Only U.S. border-sharing areas will have DTV, because it's for stations that
have U.S. reception. TWIAR reported about 2 months ago that Mexico actually
passed a referendum NOT to consider a change in non-border-sharing areas
until 2025.