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Digital Journal: Bill Hayes
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Bill Hayes is director of engineering and technology for Iowa Public Television. You can contact him via TV Technology.
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Upgrading with No Margin for Error
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by Bill Hayes, 11.12.2003
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Television tower upgrades require scrupulous planning
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RF Monitoring: A Work in Progress
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by Bill Hayes, 10.10.2003
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Digital television brings new definitions to measurement
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Before the Parade Passes By -- in HD
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by Bill Hayes, 9.03.2003
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Iowa public broadcasters continue tradition of HD coverage of state fair
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Tower Lessons Learned
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by Bill Hayes, 8.06.2003
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An antenna sat unused as unexpected questions arose in Iowa
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Interconnecting IPTV
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by Bill Hayes, 7.09.2003
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It takes planning to encode, brand, multiplex and transmit at multiple sites
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Getting a Grip on Facility Design
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by Bill Hayes, 6.09.2003
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Well, the good news is in for Iowa Public TV. The state legislature has appropriated $10 million for our DTV conversion for the next fiscal year. Although this is not enough money to complete the conversion, it does provide us with enough to make significant progress on our remaining transmitter sites as well as start work at our studio facilities.
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Automation Then and Tomorrow
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by Bill Hayes, 4.23.2003
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Regardless of the type of service or services we are providing, we are still going to want to schedule, regulate and monitor those services to ensure that the content that was supposed to be transmitted was sent at the right time.
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Iowa Public TV Looks at NAB
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by Bill Hayes, 3.05.2003
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The gear is appealing, but public budgets are uncertain.
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A Return to Proactive Communication
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by Bill Hayes, 2.05.2003
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The importance of maintaining open dialogue between manufacturers and broadcasters
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What Kind of Question Is That?
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by Bill Hayes, 1.22.2003
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The antenna engineer then told Paul that he felt he could get the VSWR down to about 1:15.1. He then asked: What would we be satisfied with? What kind of question is this to ask a customer?
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Sizing Up the Transition
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by Bill Hayes, 12.11.2002
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Iowa DTV Symposium looks to the positive
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Taking It to the Iowa State Fair
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by Bill Hayes, 11.13.2002
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Over the last few months, Iowa Public Television has had opportunities to promote our DTV conversion in a number of venues to different audiences. Along the way we have had some successes and some less-than-successful outings. Through it all I have had a song stuck in my head. Because I went to High School and college in the '70s and have worked in broadcasting since high school, music has been one of the ways I mark milestones in my career. The last few months I have been dwelling on the old Doobie Brothers classic "Taking It to the Streets."
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Surrounding With Sounds
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by Bill Hayes, 9.18.2002
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Dolby E meets the audio demands of a new generation
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Tales of Crimping and Cabling
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by Bill Hayes, 8.21.2002
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Careful connections keep signals moving
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DTV Antenna Dilemmas
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by Bill Hayes, 7.24.2002
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A significant part of planning any project is to look for methods to maximize the purchasing power of the capital investment. When reviewing our transmission facilities at Iowa Public TV, we saw that there would be considerable benefit in purchasing DTV transmitters from the same manufacturer.
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DTV Testing and Building Blues
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by Bill Hayes, 5.01.2002
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This month I would like to start with the initial power on tests of IPTV's first solid-state DTV transmitter for facility KRIN in the Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Iowa, market.
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The Rocky Road to DTV Build-out
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Making Do With Less in a Tough Economy
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by Bill Hayes, 3.06.2002
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By now, most television stations have discovered that the road to DTV is not anywhere near as smooth as we'd like it to be and is definitely taking longer than desired.
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DTV: It Is Better To Receive
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Consumer-Grade DTV Receivers Lack Consistency
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by Bill Hayes, 2.06.2002
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In this month's Journal I wanted to share some observations I have made over the last few years regarding DTV receivers.
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