Dielectric today announced it has shipped a $1.2 million antenna system order to Ethiopia in support of the nation’s second-generation DVB-T2 network rollout scheduled for later this year. The antenna maker is providing the Ethiopian government with UHF antennas, filters, more than 7,000 feet of transmission line and other RF components for 26 low- to medium-power […]
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Dielectric To Open New TV Antenna Factory
Dielectric this fall plans to open a 33,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Lewiston, Maine, 25 miles north of its headquarters in Raymond. The new plant will be used to meet increased demand stemming from the FCC’s repack of the television band. It will produce all UHF main and auxiliary TV antennas when opened, the company said. […]
Raycom Media Orders 29 Dielectric Antennas For Repack
Raycom Media has placed an order for 29 UHF and VHF antennas, tunable RF filers and transmission line from Dielectric to execute its TV spectrum repack obligations, the antenna manufacturer announced this week. The Dielectric antennas for Raycom includes: TFU-WB UHF arrays, a low-cost, sidemount UHF broadband pylon antenna. TFU-G, TFU-E and TFU-J UHF arrays. […]
New Guide Tackles TV Repack, Offers Guidance
Rohde & Schwarz today published a survival guide to help broadcasters successfully navigate relocating to a new channel assignment as part of the FCC’s TV spectrum repack. The guide, Go 2 Repack: An Expert Guide to Technology and Logistics, provides practical advice and information on a wide range of issues the vast majority of full-power […]
Dielectric Continues Reorg Of Production Floor
Dielectric this week announced it is continuing its efforts to prepare for the expected spike in demand for TV antennas and other RF components with the reorganization of its production floor strategy led by Mike Spugnardi. Spugnardi, recently appointed manufacturing engineer, will oversee inventory control, production planning and maximizing capacity throughout the company’s Raymond, Maine, […]
Dielectric Celebrates 75 Years In Business
Antenna and RF component manufacturer Dielectric is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and is planning a series of events to commemorate the milestone, the company announced today. Among the festivities will be an event for customers at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 22-27, and an Employee Appreciation Day. One of the […]
Dielectric Expansion Accelerates
A help-wanted ad crossed my desk this week from antenna and RF component manufacturer Dielectric for a machinist position. Remembering my road trip last summer to three major RF vendors, which included Dielectric, and each company’s plans to build out production capability to meet the demand generated by the TV spectrum repack, I assumed the ad […]
New Guide Tackles ATSC 3.0 Transition, Implementation
A new guide released this week aims to make the transition from the existing standard for digital TV used by U.S. broadcasters to ATSC 3.0 a bit easier and more understandable for station and group management, engineers and other technical staff. Available online at the GatesAir website, the work, an 81-page PDF document entitled the […]
Let’s All Do The Two-Step Tower Tango
Here’s the problem. At most, broadcasters have 39 months to complete their move to a new channel assignment if and when the incentive auction is complete. That’s not much time, especially when certain finite industry resources — most notably the crews qualified to work on tall TV towers — are taken into consideration. It simply […]
The Anonymous TV Network
When you sit in my seat, you see press release after press release from equipment and software vendors, research organization, societies, organizations and trade groups. Sometimes they never see the light of day. Sometimes they get condensed and posted, and occasionally they are interesting enough to pursue for a full-fledged story. Every once in a […]