PIT Channel

[Bill_KY]

PIT Channel

I was just watching the PIT Channel on 97W, the were running a engineer Q & A on a 2Ghz relocation. I found this stuff interesting. It was run by Azcartraining. So what exactly is the PIT channel? Do they lease out time to certain companies for training or do they lease out time for pretty much anything?

 

[brentb636]

AZCAR has been running this channel for over a year now, as they bring Sat truck operators up to date on new equipment. It's a good show. I've watched it several times. Seems about as permanent as anything is up there.

 

[turbosat]

I watched some of that a few days back too, they sure have some fancy equipment. Showed how to tweak all the settings on the uplink to compensate for bad weather, adjacent channel interference,etc. Gets complicated! I'm glad all I have to do is run the blind-scan box.

 

[skysurfer]

AZCAR has been running this channel for over a year now, as they bring Sat truck operators up to date on new equipment.

it's ENG trucks, not sat trucks. These are microwave frequencies being used as Sprint Nextel pays to converts some tv stations' terrestrial microwave gear to a different frequency band.

Since my local stations are among the last to convert because one station is dragging their feet on getting info to Sprint Nextel, I expect to see some training for my stations show up at some point in time on this feed.

 

[guapoharry]

I believe PIT is an uplinker. (plus a bunch of other stuff) Azcar is their client.

 

[brentb636]

it's ENG trucks, not sat trucks. These are microwave frequencies being used as Sprint Nextel pays to converts some tv stations' terrestrial microwave gear to a different frequency band.

Since my local stations are among the last to convert because one station is dragging their feet on getting info to Sprint Nextel, I expect to see some training for my stations show up at some point in time on this feed.

I didn't know they differentiated. Here in Grand Rapids, the WOOD-TV trucks do both microwave and Ku uplinks, depending upon where they are in the area. I get to talk with them occasionally when they come to Holland for a shoot. They camped out down here in June when we had torrential rains and road washouts.

 

[skysurfer]

I didn't know they differentiated. Here in Grand Rapids, the WOOD-TV trucks do both microwave and Ku uplinks,

Wow, must be really rural for WOOD to have more than 1-2 Ku-band uplink-capable trucks in the field.

Each major station here (DMA #44 or so) has one satellite uplink truck with a microwave mast and all the live SUV units and helicopter for each station are microwave only.

 

[brentb636]

Grand Rapids surrounding area is quite rural. On the west side of the state, WOOD-TV covers from South Haven to North of Ludington . Not a lot of major cities on the lakeshore, just nice little towns, with pubs.

 

[whatchel1]

2GHz reloacation

It is training for the ENG trucks not Sat as 1 other poster mentioned. There is a lot of difference between a SAT/ENG combo truck. Although a Sat truck op will also need to be able to do what an eng truck op would be able to do. Have had to talk w/ the Azcar people to set up 2 different stations for training before I left them. The Azcar training is strictly for point to point microwave.

 

[brentb636]

Keep the info coming. It's interesting .