I would also be curious about how many stations are getting higher than normal viewer complaints about reception -- especially stations that didn't need to change during the repack.

Jeff

Welcome to the forum! My impression was that Thor is mainly found in CATV and MATV environments -- I have never seen it in a television station (but things do change). I suppose it greatly depends on what you want to do: if you're in France, you probably don't care much about ATSC encoding. :lol: Jeff

Good. Our station got a great deal of angry viewer reaction last year, mainly from people convinced that this was a system for transmitting political propaganda. The way things are going right now, that's something we don't need to repeat.

Jeff

Our 9240s are four years old next month, and they're already end of life?

Jeff

Sounds like you needed a vending machine full of Caf-Pow. Funny -- we used to have a master control operator who reminded me greatly of Abby. Really sweet, and really good at the job. Back in those days, we were in the basement of a shopping mall... it was a dangerously short walk to coffee shops, ...

I had forgotten how much it took - I have been out of TV engineering for nearly twenty years. I decided that I preferred radio engineering. I started out doing radio remotes (spelling bees, football games, church services) with my Dad about when I was in middle school, and did freelance repair of n...

Have the colors always flickered since you got it? It could simply be that it needs alignment. That is not a procedure that I would recommend for the inexperienced or those without proper instrumentation and tools. Hi Dale, Without either the heterodyne card or a time base corrector, the color will...

BKH 2200. PAL/Secam BKH 2300 .PAL /Secam BKH 2350 and as you write it has something to do with series no You're probably correct. The only PAL equipment I have maintained was at Kodak's production facility in Rochester NY, and it was old enough to have used outboard BVT-2000 time base correctors. A...

...You can also get a single TBC card HT-2000 Heterodyne. If I found this, could it be used? Is the HT-2000 a firmly programmed card? I have never seen an HT-2000 heterodyne card, even at the Sony training school, and doubt that very many were ever made. For one thing, it isn't very useful: it isn'...

Hi there! The BKH-2015 / 2015A isn't a time base corrector, it's the time code reader/generator. It's an optional board, and has no impact on video quality beyond inserting VITC during recording, and producing a monitor output with the time display burned into the picture. The BKH-2100 is the early ...

Before you ship it out, you might want to enable some of those alarms -- especially for the loss of input and video encoding. Not having an alarm indication when there isn't a valid source could be confusing to the operators.

Jeff

aungbu wrote: ↑

Wed May 27, 2020 9:31 am

...I do not have satellite feeds or decode in my location for a real test.

If you aren't feeding the receiver an input signal, it isn't going to produce an output -- and you will get alarms because of the lack of an input. This is normal.

Jeff

slot 6 AD-20 (converts the analog input to a digital stream) slot 7 MY-21 (eight-line video memory) slot 8 SG-62 (sync generator / memory clocking) slot 9 PR-64 (output processing amplifier) Yes, those four cards are the BKH-2100 time base corrector kit. I don't remember for certain, but it might n...

The fix would probably be giving it something to actually decode... Dave is right. The significance to what you are seeing is this: the Input Status field is telling you that there is no input signal for it to lock to. You can set the receiver to a satellite feed (given an L-band input, and the cor...

They were in business about a month ago -- we just got two new Digicarts from them.

Jeff