Ive had the unfortunate experience of having a base station for some kind of digital cellular service placed within about 70 m of my home. They apparently have a frequency of 734 MHz and a bandwidth of 10 MHz, running 1200 watts ERP. In addition another 3000 watts ERP of PCS/cellular went up in the same place. I no longer have good reception of analog channel 60 or 43, which I normally have more than 50 dB of fade margin since it is line of sight (check my TV fool results for being at top floor of 169 Lees Ave : http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id=7ebb9ea9ac5185 ) Also getting pixelation on some digital channels that used to be perfect reception. Further signals that were reliable, like WCFE, are completely gone and never seen, even though last winter were a common occurrence.
Very scary actually since the digital signals are so strong I can hear them on my wired telephone and my piano even, to the point where they are very distracting.
I wrote Industry Canada - the district office - a letter about my problems of interference. In the meantime no more TV - even local TV - for me. Very sad.
I just checked and the 734 MHz transmitter corresponds to channels 58 and 59 UHF
Very scary actually since the digital signals are so strong I can hear them on my wired telephone and my piano even, to the point where they are very distracting.
I wrote Industry Canada - the district office - a letter about my problems of interference. In the meantime no more TV - even local TV - for me. Very sad.
I just checked and the 734 MHz transmitter corresponds to channels 58 and 59 UHF