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Old 1-Oct-2010, 6:14 AM   #9
mtownsend
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Yes, if what you're saying is that all the TV programming you want is being broadcast from the translator stations near Medford, then all you need is a simple one-antenna setup. You should be able to pick up all of the Medford stations with a single modest size antenna (HD7695P) pointed in that direction.



In TV lingo, a translator usually refers to a transmitter that takes the signal from one channel and re-broadcasts it on a different physical channel. As a very simplified example, you might get channel 10 as input, shift the signal to channel 30, boost the signal back to broadcast power levels (i.e., watts or kilowatts), and send the "translated" signal back out into the world.

Translators are often used to serve isolated communities that might be blocked (due to terrain) from receiving the main signal directly. A different channel is often chosen so that the re-transmitted signal does not cause any interference on the main signal (don't want to send a slightly delayed copy of the same signal back out on the original channel).
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