{"id":12507,"date":"2023-11-10T08:12:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=12507"},"modified":"2023-12-02T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T14:28:09","slug":"tv-sweeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/tv-sweeps\/","title":{"rendered":"TV sweeps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We have been really busy this fall working on multiple projects plus the day-to-day tasks. One thing that is always fun; sweeping antennas with a VNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, WVIT<\/a> Hartford, CT needed to repair a leaking transmission line section just below the antenna. To ensure that there would be no problems with return to the air at full power, we did a before sweep and after sweep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WVIT is the ATSC 3.0 lighthouse station for the Hartford Market.<\/s> FCCinfo.com has the station listed as ATSC 3.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WVIT Tower, Hartford CT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The WVIT tower is 1,100 feet tall and is located on Rattlesnake Mountain near Farmington, CT. Most of the other Hartford TV stations are on the same hill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tower crew, hitching a ride to the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Selfie; return loss looks good<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is always interesting to see new places and meet new people. This site has an auxiliary TV studio, which they were using during COVID. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been really busy this fall working on multiple projects plus the day-to-day tasks. One thing that is always fun; sweeping antennas with a VNA. In this case, WVIT Hartford, CT needed to repair a leaking transmission line section just below the antenna. To ensure that there would be no problems with return to … Continue reading TV sweeps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,324],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-12507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12583,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507\/revisions\/12583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}