On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:17:35 -0700, yea right wrote:

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:27:45 -0600, cuhulin wrote:

look between 450Mhz-451Mhz for the station's repeater outputs. This is a
nation wide allocation and most TV stations are in here with their mobile
units
And 455.05-ca. 455.495

"Hulkster" wrote in message
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As a side note, how do TV stations manage to get mobile phone
calls/signals
to people in the storm when it is obvious that the system would be down?

Are they using satellite phones or something???


Could they use the audio of a satellite video up/down link on their remote
broadcast trucks?
Land-line and cell phone systems have back-up power generators and large
banks of batteries.
Calls are automatically rerouted around nodes that are out of service.

wrote:

DirecTV Satellite dish on my roof pointing at a bird way up there in the
Southwestern Sky (or near Earth orbit,whatever it's called) and heavy
thunderstorms obstructing my signal.It doesn't happen often though.
cuhulin


Yes, but just HOW does a tv set shut off for ten minutes a few minutes
ago? Is there a warp in the fabric of the space/time continuum?


mike

Heavy cloud cover obstructs/blocks the satellite signal.No signal,no
audio and no video (except for a blue band across the bottom of the tv
screen that says Searching For Signal,or something like that) either,so
the tv screen goes dark and quiet.Sometimes though,the heavy cloud cover
isn't qute heavy enough to completly obstruct/block the satellite signal
and there are big stop action pixels on the tv screen and the
video/images on screen look as though they are frozen in place untill
the satellite dish antenna can pick up a better signal and the audio
sounds like it is breaking up,sort of like somebody loseing their cell
phone signal.
cuhulin

wrote:

Heavy cloud cover obstructs/blocks the satellite signal.

I believe that a 'few minutes' is two, three, even four minutes. After
that, we use numbers. My wondering was, just how can a tv set be off
for ten minutes when it only turned OFF a few minutes ago. You knew how
long the set was off when it came back to life. How can it be off longer
than the distance back in time when it went out?

I can understand a set turning off ten minutes ago for a few minutes,
but NOT the other way around.

In case anyone wonders, I AM considering getting a life.



mike

m II wrote:

In case anyone wonders, I AM considering getting a life.

Is that possible? I mean, you being in CanaDuh, that hardly sounds plausible.

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