Do You Get Any Out-of-Market TV Signals?

[KML0224]

@ sweetloaf: Channel 18 from Hartford is WUVN-TV.

Do you ever receive any other Connecticut TV stations besides WFSB-TV channel 3 and WUVN-TV channel 18?

 

[sweetloaf]

@ sweetloaf: Channel 18 from Hartford is WUVN-TV.

Do you ever receive any other Connecticut TV stations besides WFSB-TV channel 3 and WUVN-TV channel 18?

so far no.

 

[ssetta]

In the analog era, WJAR-10 and WPRI-12 (both in Providence) could both be received with indoor VHF antennas on most sets in the Boston area, especially south of a line from Burlington to Gloucester.

With roof antenna, about 2 1/2 mile SE of the Needham towers, I get these Providence stations perfectly, at all times:

WLNE ABC 6 (49 real)
WJAR NBC 10 (51)
WPRI CBS 12 (13)
WLWC WB 28 (22)
WNAC FOX 64 (12)

These are 30-40 miles away. WPXQ ION 69 (17) at about 60 miles comes in about 25-30% of the time, but I have never received WSBE PBS 36 (21), though oddly - now and then skip brings in WLIW Long Island also on 21. WSBE seems to have some odd directional pattern with a null to the north.

I live kinda high up near Milford Ma. I recently installed an indoor antenna on my digital tv. I have been pulling in all of the Boston and Providence channels, as well as WFSB 3.1-4, WUNV 18.1-3, WLIW 21.1-3 and WFTY 67.1-2. Admittedly I have to manually adjust the antenna and weather can be a big factor. I was pleasantly surprised at how many stations were available on a relatively cheap antenna on which the box said was rated for "20 miles."

I am in Natick, and have two TVs without cable hooked up to them. One is a modern Dynex 19" LCD TV, and the other is a Panasonic 27" Tube TV with a Magnavox converter hooked up to it. I can get both WPRI and WNAC on the Magnavox converter, but not at all on the Dynex. I'm guessing VHF on digital is very flaky.

 

[vchimpanzee]

In Durham, North Carolina, my experience has been that much of the out-of-market TV we used to receive disappeared after the digital transition. The only consistent signals we get from outside the Raleigh-Durham DMA are WFMY (UHF 51/PSIP 2) from Greensboro and, WCWG (UHF 19/ PSIP 20) from Lexington (also Greensboro market). Greensboro, Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville and Wilmington siglas used to be commonplace in the analog era.

Ironically in Greenville almost all I watch are Raleigh channels. The only one I can't get is WTVD/11. Aside from not having a decent VHF antenna, I have local adjacents on 10 (WNCT) and 12 (WCTI).

Why would WNCT not be on 9?

 

[vchimpanzee]

In Durham, North Carolina, my experience has been that much of the out-of-market TV we used to receive disappeared after the digital transition. The only consistent signals we get from outside the Raleigh-Durham DMA are WFMY (UHF 51/PSIP 2) from Greensboro and, WCWG (UHF 19/ PSIP 20) from Lexington (also Greensboro market). Greensboro, Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville and Wilmington siglas used to be commonplace in the analog era.

WFMY was my most consistent station in the early days of DTV, followed by WXLV (UHF 29/PSIP 45). WCWG did well for a while and as soon as leaves started appearing on the trees, it was the first to misbehave. I don't think it ever got any better. Now WFMY has more problems than WXLV. I mostly stick with cable, even though WFMY is the only station there of the ones I picked up reliably with an antenna at first.

The Charlotte stations have a good selection of movies and syndicated shows.

 

[w00t]

Why would WNCT not be on 9?

Analog was on 9 but their digital has always been on 10.

I wish it was on 9; I could probably see WTVD if it was.

 

[RadioDaze]

WNCT simply stayed on VHF 10 post-transition; VHF 9 moved to the neighboring Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News market, where Manteo-licensed WSKY, channel 4 (which signed on in 2001...too late to be assigned a second DTV channel) moved their digital signal from the VHF low-band.