[BC] WestwoodOne changing to Wegener receivers

Kevin Kidd kkbroadcastengineering at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 19:27:22 CDT 2014


My point was that based on the troubleshooting advice of the Jones network techs following their change to a digital Wegner RX, we replaced the dish (interference from adjacent sats), long convoluted feed line (too much loss), re-aimed, re-aimed, re-aimed, etc, etc only to find that the rx was being over driven by even the original dish and line.  This found when the client finally decided to rent a spectrum analyzer.  A roll of cheap Walmart RG-59 gave a little over 10db loss and allowed the system to run for several years.

Later,

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:30 PM, <donroden at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>With a low noise preamp, I've stacked three 10 db attenuators and
>still had lock.

Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD
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