Jampro awarded turnkey DTV system projects for TV Azteca's Mexican network

Following on the heels of a successful multi-system installation earlier this year that enabled Latin America’s first digital TV transmission, TV Azteca, one of the region’s largest TV networks, has awarded Jampro Antenna / RF Systems of Sacramento another contract to provide an additional six turnkey antenna installations,
Azteca's New Technologies Engineering Group reported that the previous Jampro turnkey systems, commissioned for stations in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, exceeded their performance expectations and led to the new contract. Jampro's latest award calls for six complete installations consisting of multi-channel JUHD UHF broadband panel antennas and UHF Prostar slot antennas. Each of the six comprehensive transmitters to tower installations include Jampro mask filters, combiners, patch panel-power splitters and rigid line transmission systems.
Jampro's JUHD panel antenna comes DTV-Ready and its Prostar line of UHF slot antennas are compatible with DTV transmissions as well as NTSC and PAL broadcasts, thus laying the groundwork for TV Azteca's growing digital capability. Integral to the six antenna installations are Jampro mask filters and combiner modules. Jampro mask filter-constant impedance channel combiners provide DTV mask filtering with the ability to combine additional analog or digital UHF TV transmitters while the company's UHF combiner modules have proven valuable to TV Azteca for bandpass and channel combining applications at sites where the small size of the module is critical to the installation.
"Particularly over the past several years, we have seen a dramatic rise in the number of domestic and international TV and radio networks that require complete design through commissioning services. Just like TV Azteca, there's no question that customers are aware of the bottom line savings and, perhaps more importantly, the time efficiencies of allowing one organization to fabricate the entire transmitter to antenna end of their business,” said Alex Perchevitch, Jampro's President.
TV Azteca is headquartered Mexico City and owned by Television Azteca S.A. De C.V. The network enjoys national coverage throughout Mexico. TV Azteca is also available in parts of the southern United States via broadcast or digital cable. Its subsidiary, Azteca America is the fastest growing television network in the United Sates. Earlier this year, the CRTC approved Azteca 13 as a third-language channel to broadcast via digital paid TV throughout Canada. The network also operates Azteca 13 Internacional, which reaches 13 countries in Central and South America.
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