• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Analog TV Reception in Southington, Connecticut

MarcB

MarcB

I just bought a Triquest Model 8020 VHF/UHF indoor antenna at Big Lot for $2.99 I bought it for a back up just in case the cable goes out. Here's what I was able to pick up with it: (reception may very depending on which way I turn the antenna). I live in Southington, CT behind the abandoned Shaw's Supermarket and Abandoned Pratt & Whitney Factory.

3 WFSB HARTFORD CBS

8 WTNH NEW HAVEN ABC

18 WUVN HARTFORD UNIVISION

20 WTXX WATERBURY CW

22 WWLP SPRINGFIELD NBC

24 WEDH HARTFORD PBS/CPTV

26 WHPX NEW LONDON "i'

30 WVIT NEW BRITAIN NBC

38 WHCT-LP HARTFORD AZTECA AMERCIA

40 WGGB SPRINGFIELD ABC/AMERICA'S STORE

48 WRNT-LP HARTFORD (AFFILIATED WITH IND. NEWS NET AND VISION ENTERNTAINMENT SPORTS NETWORK - VESN)

57 WGBY SPRINGFIELD PBS

59 WCTX NEW HAVEN MNT

61 WTIC HARTFORD FOX

I was surprsied I could pick up WHCT-LP and WRNT-LP. I was equally surprised that I couldn't pick up WSAH/43, WUTH-CA/47 (Telefutura), WRDM-LP/50 (Telemundo/JTV), and Smithtown, LI's WFTY/67 (Telefutura). When I used to live in Bristol I could usally recieve both Long Island Stations - WLNY (55 now HDTV only) and WFTY (67, previously WHSI).
 
Here in New Britain's south end, I get a crappy signal of channels 18 and 24, since I'm at the bottom of Walnut Hill, which is in the same direction as Avon Mountain. Analog 3 is decent at best (again, the Avon Mountain issue). 20, 26 and 59 are marginal but watchable. I can't get any usuable signal with 22, 40 or 57 from Springfield (although I used to get 22 clear and a decent 40 when I lived in a different part of NB in 1991). I don't get the low-power stations from Avon Mountain (well duh!) I used to get a VERY weak signal from 55 and still get a slight bit from 67. I don't get anything with channel 65 from New Haven and nearly nothing from 49 in Bridgeport. Surprisingly, I get a halfway decent signal from channel 53 of Norwich, depending on the antenna's position (rabbit ears).
 
In Avon (on a ridge in West Avon) add:

2-WCBS-picture no sound
5-WCVB if antenna is east
5-WNYW-if antenna is west
6-WRGB-picture no sound

If you get up to Avon Mountain the east picks up Boston quite well..the west facing side apparently gets good pickups of several of the NYC stations.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom