While Germany faces the problem of transition between DVB-T and DVB-T2 for a dwindling number of terrestrial over the air viewers, the US ponders how to get 4K into an over the air system. Mark Aitken is working with an experimental operation using OFDM at the Sinclair Baltimore LMA station WNUV. Aitken’s name is familiar because of his past association with Acrodyne, Comark/Thomson/Thales/Thomcast, and with the ATSC. He was a proponent of US adoption of OFDM transmission while the standard was still being debated. OFDM is a transmission mode that is friendly to mobile reception and this was one of the strong sales points presented before the ATSC made their choice of 8VSB. Interest in over the air 4K provides another argument that makes the pick of 8VSB look like an unfortunate decision.

My favorite industry writer Deborah McAdams files the story for TV Technology;

Sinclair Transmits OFDM in Baltimore

Doug Lung offers some technical details in an earlier article in TV Technology;

Details on WNUV’s Experimental License to Test OFDM