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Re: [RFI] RFI on New Digital TV

To: "rfi@contesting.com" <rfi@contesting.com>, Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Subject: Re: [RFI] RFI on New Digital TV
From: AA5CT via RFI <rfi@contesting.com>
Reply-to: AA5CT <jwin95@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 19:35:18 +0000 (UTC)
List-post: <mailto:rfi@contesting.com>
 re: "new digital TV Standard (NTSC 3.0 I think it's called) was introduced 
maybe 5 years ago, and is being pretty widely adopted major markets."

We have one, just one, in the DFW Metroplex market ... evident from having 
nopilot carrier (which is approx 309 kHz up from the bottom channel edge) 
present 
if I am given to understand it.

About 6 months back I surveyed with an RF spectrum analyzer all TV channelsin 
the DFW market from near Dallas then verified which ones I could receivewith a 
10 year old Sharp digital TV.


de Jim AA5CT 


    On Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 1:56:45 PM GMT-5, Jim Brown 
<jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:  
 
 On 5/20/2025 11:28 AM, Tim Duffy wrote:
> I have six LG 4K and 8K TVs here - no RFI. Maybe the Yamaha issue is the 
> problem - I don't know...

Tim's right on suggesting not to rule anything out. I have a big Yamaha 
RX, 10-15 years old, that routes audio and video through it in several 
formats. When I installed it, I choked cables to speakers and antennas 
before turning it on. All those interconnect cables are possible 
antennas for Pin One.

Another point -- in the world of consumer products, the word "digital" 
is very much a marketing term. For example, digital antennas. :) In the 
case of a TV, the only technically correct use of the word is that the 
RF tuner and demodulator for digital signals and some logic to support 
those signals, is built-in, rather than an exterior box. My 10-15 year 
old Sony had such a tuner for first generation digital TV standards 
built in.

A new digital TV Standard (NTSC 3.0 I think it's called) was introduced 
maybe 5 years ago, and is being pretty widely adopted major markets. It 
has many interesting capabilities, including the ability to transmit 
pay-TV, in which the decoders are connected to the internet and make 
extractions from our bank account. Current generation TV sets will have 
a new generation tuner built in, and some are better than others. There 
are also several outboard tuners that that feed audio/video inputs of 
existing sets.

73, Jim K9YC

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