[BC] Satellite sensitivity...

[DANA PUOPOLO]

I've always said this about UHF television....there's two ways to get 3 db
more carrier/noise ratio.

One way is to increase power from 2.5 to 5 megawatts. The other way is to
lower the noise floor of every receiver by 3 db.

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:56:54 PM PST
From: "Dave Dunsmoor" <mrfixit at min.midco.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Satellite sensitivity...

Oh, certainly it is. But food for thought...


Dave



> Keep in mind that where satellites are located the noise floor from
> man-made noise is much lower than it is down hear on the "flats".
>
> Burt
>
> At 10:00 PM 2/15/2006, you wrote:
> >     Now if that satellite can hear such a extremely small signal from
> >however high up they orbit, why doesn't IBUZ use something like 5 watts
and
> >have the receiver manufacturers come up the rest of the gain and noise
> >floor? That in itself would be a superb incentive to move over to IBUZ.
> >Similar (or even better than) to moving to SS from a tube transmitter.
> >
> >
> >Dave Dunsmoor

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