In Karachay-Cherkessia come with digital channels - Russian Newspaper

in Karachay-Cherkessia come with digital channels. In the capital of the Republic commissioned antenna towers 150 meters high, which will provide high-quality digital TV for almost 40 percent of the population.

In the fall zone of the city of Cherkessk, part Prikubansky, Adyge-Hablsk and Ust-Dzhegutinsky areas. The new tower was built to replace the old, the life which was about 50 years old. According to experts, the mast-survivor was no longer able to bear the additional burden of the placement of digital broadcasting equipment. In order to provide digital TV in the country, was developed terms of reference for the manufacture of new tower height of 150 meters. This tower must withstand the necessary load, taking into account local climatic characteristics, seismic and wind patterns at the site of installation.

The complexity of the work was not only to the design features of the tower, which has a double margin of safety, but also in the performance of construction work while operating the old mast. After all, she is also rather big height – 137.5 meters. From the installers needed very thin, almost piece of work with which they coped brilliantly.

The head of the radio-television transmission center KCR Jeanne Tkachenko, Digital TV offers superior picture and sound quality compared to analog or a digital signal has a high resistance to various interferences as required to receive digital signal level is much lower than analog.

in Karachay-Cherkessia actively working on terrestrial broadcasting networks to digital technology is not the first year. Test broadcasting of digital television in Cherkessk conducted in May 2010. It turned out that the reception is possible at any point of the city, even in the absence of a clear line of sight to the transmitting station.

no noise in the image, and “ghosts” that occur when receiving analog television in high-rise buildings. Where analog TV is noisy, “figure” was in that quality in which it was formed in the TV studios.

Tkachenko recalled that in November 2012 in the KCR were included in the terrestrial digital TV stations in the mountain resort village of Dombay villages Uchkulan and Sarah-Tuz, as well as in a remote village of the republican capital Kardonikskaya. A total of completed work on the seven sites of the first and second stages of the construction, which provide an opportunity for 62.5 percent of the population watch high quality digital TV.

Now the republic is under construction and another 38 objects of digital broadcasting. In 2013, the digital TV programs first multiplex is planned to cover the entire territory of KCR.

– We have built a network in such a way that people were able to take a local program – said Tkachenko. – The network is very complex, because the terrain is very difficult, and yet we are able to provide digital television almost the entire population.

Free advice about how to connect to digital TV is available in the counseling center, located in the city of Cherkessk, Komsomolskaya Street, 29, or call the toll-free hotline number at 8,800,220 in 2002.