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Channel 61, A Low Power Job in Rutland VT

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I believe this is part of the "UPN 39" string of low power TV transmitters across VT that originale from Burlington.

Did these folks go belly up ? The over the air TV signal in Rutland County has been broadcasting a message over the air that says "Alarm, Installation Mode". Is this going out across the entire VT network and on Adelphia where I think they still have carriage ?

This message has been going over the air for at least 5 weeks now. I have to go past this channel when flipping around in my no-cable residence.
 
> I believe this is part of the "UPN 39" string of low power
> TV transmitters across VT that originale from Burlington.
>
> Did these folks go belly up ?

They came close to doing so, until Equity Broadcasting, which masters everything via satellite from Little Rock, bought the station and its trannies.

Equity has a reputation of having technical problems with their transmitters, to a point where most cable systems take the signal directly off Equity's bird.

> The over the air TV signal in
> Rutland County has been broadcasting a message over the air
> that says "Alarm, Installation Mode". Is this going out
> across the entire VT network and on Adelphia where I think
> they still have carriage ?

I don't know -- anyone from Burlington care to chime in on this?

>
> This message has been going over the air for at least 5
> weeks now. I have to go past this channel when flipping
> around in my no-cable residence.
>

They do have a special trasmitter failure hotline where you can report these things -- call 1-866-823-8828.

See this Wikipedia article for more details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGMU
 
> Did these folks go belly up ? The over the air TV signal in
> Rutland County has been broadcasting a message over the air
> that says "Alarm, Installation Mode". Is this going out
> across the entire VT network and on Adelphia where I think
> they still have carriage ?

That sounds like a satellite alarm. The Wegener satellite receivers will go into "installation mode" whenever the signal is lost. It sounds like maybe their dish got blown off satellite with the recent winds.
 
Cable channel 20 is ON in the Montpelier system, but with on-and-off herringbone
in the picture(altho it not as bad as it's been).<P ID="signature">______________
"What's That?" "French Horns!"

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New England's "Real" Channel 61 and VT?

Speaking of channel 61, I often wonder how far north the 5 million watt signal of Hartford's WTIC-TV (FOX) gets going north? Does it reach any portion of southern Vermont with a good roof antenna? (They transmit from Rattlesnake mountain in Farmington, CT.)<P ID="signature">______________
The 2006 New York Yankees...on to title #27!</P>
 
Re: New England's "Real" Channel 61 and VT?

> Speaking of channel 61, I often wonder how far north the 5
> million watt signal of Hartford's WTIC-TV (FOX) gets going
> north? Does it reach any portion of southern Vermont with a
> good roof antenna?
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I used to live just over the VT border(Vernon, VT)and received a pretty fair 61 on my OTA antenna. Can't say just how much more north it went than that...<P ID="signature">______________
"What's That?" "French Horns!"

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Re: New England's "Real" Channel 61 and VT?

> I used to live just over the VT border(Vernon, VT)and
> received a pretty fair 61 on my OTA antenna. Can't say just
> how much more north it went than that...

It wouldn't the terrain much north of Brattleboro kills a lot of the southerly signals.
 
Re: New England's "Real" Channel 61 and VT?

Do you get much better results with 22, 40 or 57 from Springfield? What about channel 3 from Hartford?<P ID="signature">______________
The 2006 New York Yankees...on to title #27!</P>
 
Re: New England's "Real" Channel 61 and VT?

> Do you get much better results with 22, 40 or 57 from
> Springfield? What about channel 3 from Hartford?
>

Just by nature of the transmitting signals and such, I would guess that 3 would come in the best until it starts being interfered with by WCAX.

22 and 57 might do pretty well up to those mountains, with 40 doing the worst, because their antenna radiates all their power south-ward from the stick on Mt Tom, leaving the northern signal much weaker.

But just about everything dies over the ridge that is north-west of Brattleboro
 
> Cable channel 20 is ON in the Montpelier system, but with
> on-and-off herringbone
> in the picture(altho it not as bad as it's been).

Cable channel 20 is in a land-mobile 2-way radio band, so sometimes things like police radios and paging transmitters can be picked up, resulting in that kind of herringbone. (I mean, even if the TV signal being transmitted in that channel is clean. The interference generally happens at your TV.)

Channel 19 is similarly affected, and it's probably worse on 21 as the powerful NOAA weather transmitters are in that channel. Interference *from* cable channel 18 has made the allotted ham radio frequency of 145.25MHz nearly useless in much of the country.
 
> I don't know -- anyone from Burlington care to chime in on
> this?
>

They have a very good signal on Adelphia here in Burlington, better then WPTZ or CFCF does tonight, must be off a bird. It looks too clean.
 
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