Rayzar Air retrofit antenna

MNtundraRet wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:

Winegard1 wrote:
The Rayzar air is not designed to receive Low-VHF (2-6)
It can receive High-VHF (7-13)

Eventually, most broadcasting towers will most likely switch over to UHF.

Where are you getting your information?

I wondered that as well, Jeff. In the Albany, NY market, station WXXA applied to the FCC and was granted permission to move from UHF channel 23 to VHF channel 7.

The band to be auctioned off (no longer for TV) was Low VHF (old analog channels 2 to 6). Channel 7 is in the remaining bands for TV. As we all should know regulations made by government do not always go as planned. Unless your a mind-reader no one knows when the regulated changes will be enforced by FCC, or modified by Congress.

That’s not what the FCC Chief of Staff told me directly at a meeting when this was all cooked up a few years ago. He was making a grand tour trying to convince us that this was the best thing since sliced bread and it would all be completely done before 2014… :R

The FCC doesn’t care about the low spectrum because it’s worth nothing to the data providers, they’re after the 600MHz band, THAT’S where the cash is (they think). I’ll see if I can find it, but one of the move incentives in the auction is to relocate OFF UHF and back onto the VHF spectrum. There are still a couple of doozy lawsuits to get through before this is ready to take off… at the lightning speed of government. He also said at the time that all this depended on them getting enough interest, and cash from the auction to bankroll this entire project. That includes buying out those broadcasters interested, and moving those planning to stay, neither are cheap. And if they (FCC) didn’t hit whatever number that was, the whole thing was off. This is NOT the band that the data providers really want, so it’ll be interesting to see how all this plays out.

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HERE is the Cliffs Notes high level version of the proposal. It's ironic that the proceeds from this sale probably won't pay a days interest on the debt.