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Not all of our equipment is on the top of a hill. When you have something like microwave which is line-of-sight (even if the antenna is out of visual sight, tens of miles away) you have to be up there where there's nothing to get in the way. It also is the best place to put your main, high-power transmitter to cover the greatest area with your signal.
Translators are small, low-power receiver/transmitter pairs that receive the weak signal and re-transmit it on a different channel. Coming from SoCal where everyone and their brother can put a transmitter up on Mount Wilson and cover several counties, the concept of a translator was quite foreign to me. But in Oregon where the terrain is less flat, there are lots of areas in the shadow of mountains where your signal is weak. Translators are a station's way to fill in these shadows, making sure the small communities in the valleys and foothills can still get your signal.
Mind you, there are rules... you can only set up translators in the area that would be normally covered by your main transmitter if the terrain was flat. You can't use translators to extend your coverage. Otherwise we could set up a string of translators from here to the California border!
This is our translator in Scottsburg. Definitely not a hilltop. You can't even see it from the forestry road used to access it. You have to know where the turnoff is (it's steep and overgrown) and walk up that road, which doubles back on itself before ending here. It's like you're out on a nice hike in the forest when suddenly... hey, there's a building with an antenna mast out here!
After much searching, I found it on the map. If you continue northwest up the access road, you'll find the cell site at the end of it. This is where you can turn around to head back down the hill, because the road sure isn't wide enough.
Translators are small, low-power receiver/transmitter pairs that receive the weak signal and re-transmit it on a different channel. Coming from SoCal where everyone and their brother can put a transmitter up on Mount Wilson and cover several counties, the concept of a translator was quite foreign to me. But in Oregon where the terrain is less flat, there are lots of areas in the shadow of mountains where your signal is weak. Translators are a station's way to fill in these shadows, making sure the small communities in the valleys and foothills can still get your signal.
Mind you, there are rules... you can only set up translators in the area that would be normally covered by your main transmitter if the terrain was flat. You can't use translators to extend your coverage. Otherwise we could set up a string of translators from here to the California border!
This is our translator in Scottsburg. Definitely not a hilltop. You can't even see it from the forestry road used to access it. You have to know where the turnoff is (it's steep and overgrown) and walk up that road, which doubles back on itself before ending here. It's like you're out on a nice hike in the forest when suddenly... hey, there's a building with an antenna mast out here!
After much searching, I found it on the map. If you continue northwest up the access road, you'll find the cell site at the end of it. This is where you can turn around to head back down the hill, because the road sure isn't wide enough.
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Nope, and there are actually two translators in there... we share it with I think the NBC affiliate.
Our Winston translator is up on a hill and looks like the stereotypical outhouse (even made out of wood) with an antenna next to it. The receive antenna is inside the shack because it's so close to our Roseburg transmitter (the translator fills in for a community in a valley on the far side of the hill from the transmitter).
Contrast to somewhere like Glenada, where there is a microwave building, cell sites for Sprint, AT&T and Verizon, plus the translator building with at least three TV translators and probably as many radio translators. All the buildings are all air-conditioned/ventilated and have generator backups. A busy hilltop that serves the mid-state coastal communities.
Our Winston translator is up on a hill and looks like the stereotypical outhouse (even made out of wood) with an antenna next to it. The receive antenna is inside the shack because it's so close to our Roseburg transmitter (the translator fills in for a community in a valley on the far side of the hill from the transmitter).
Contrast to somewhere like Glenada, where there is a microwave building, cell sites for Sprint, AT&T and Verizon, plus the translator building with at least three TV translators and probably as many radio translators. All the buildings are all air-conditioned/ventilated and have generator backups. A busy hilltop that serves the mid-state coastal communities.
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