If the stations will give you retransmission permission you can do it. But
they probably won't and they certainly won't for free with the possible
exception of KSL. There are TV translators on Lake Mountain. Cannot they
receive signals from there?
SCOTUS shot down the aereo case years ago where they put a pile of
centralized slingbox type of devices sharing an antenna system.
But, would you get caught? Probably not. And I presume the broadcasters
would have to bring a case against you. Pretty sure the FCC would not carry
any enforcement water on their behalf. You might get a letter from the FCC
saying to stop. I doubt there would be a fine since you are not
broadcasting RF.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sterling Jacobson
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2021 10:47 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: [AFMUG] Network Transport of Local Broadcast TV
I know we've discussed this before, but I forget if it's possible/legal to
do.
I've got customers in my network footprint that cannot receive public OTA TV
because they are blocked from seeing Farnsworth Peak in SLC, UT.
Is it possible technically to live tranceive the entire available spectrum
from an area that can receive it and set it up as a streaming service to my
own customers in network?
I'm not looking to charge anything, just to provide a solution here that is
both legal and effective.
Bandwidth isn't much of a concern, but I don't think I want to just provide
the raw DTV entire band(s) and transmit those because they are HUGE.
So I know I would want to live encode everything, and then have some way for
customers to decode that maybe just back into coax feed from Ethernet.
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