FM STATION/TV CHANNEL OF THE WEEK: 87.7/CHANNEL 6

[Tim from Springfield IL]

3 channels:
CIII here in Ottawa
CHEK in Victoria, BC
and WOC in Davenport, IA.

Actually, WOC-TV (NBC) Davenport changed its calls to KWQC back in late 1986 (they had been WOC-TV since Day 1 on Oct. 31, 1949).

 

[tomservo]

Hope the thread isn't too dead for a little mystery. I was driving through Columbus, Mississippi yesterday. I checked 87.7 to see if there'd be a trace of WABG from Greenwood or WBRC from Birmingham. WBRC was barely perceptible and at one point Spanish language audio took over. It was definately TV audio, but from where?
Mexico? Or maybe W06CO from Meridian?
Its a mystery I can't seen to solve, especially since my only internet access right now is on this cell phone.

 

[raedizzle2008]

In Durham, NC, its WECT-TV 6 in Wilmington, NC pretty consistently day and night in any kind of weather, even when you can't get a picture on TV (their transmitter, one of the nation's tallest, is located in Bladen County, NC, which, though not in the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville TV market, sits adjacent to Fayetteville's home county of Cumberland).

I've never received anything else there besides e-skip channel 6's.

I've heard WECT-TV's audio fairly consistently while traveling through Raleigh, NC on a car radio myself...interesting thing is that there's a 2nd-adjacent 88.1 (WKNC, NC State's station) in-town! I've heard WECT audio fairly well (if not great), except for when I've been within about a mile of NCSU's campus, then POOF! ;D I've also gotten WECT's audio at times as far away as around Greensboro, NC and even once in Danville, VA (must have been a doggone good clear night!). They're really a powerful signal to mess with, but alas their analog signal (including the 87.7 audio) will disappear on September 8 of this year, since the commercial stations in the Wilmington market will all surrender their analogs over 5 months before the rest of the country follows suit. (The WIL stations volunteered to do this; I guess this is to see how the transition will go along for this "guinea-pig" market, and to see what possible "kinks" might need to be worked on if any before everyone else goes to total DTV).

 

[raedizzle2008]

On the FM, we can almost always hear WECT just north of Raleigh, NC, but I've never seen WECT on the TV here (WRAL channel 5 must affect it).
Every once in a while if we're driving just a few miles north of here, we can hear the channel 6 in Richmond on the radio.

Whereabouts in NC have you heard WTVR (Richmond's 6)? How many miles north of Raleigh? I've never heard them in NC, but have gotten them around South Hill & Emporia before on a friend's car radio some while back. And also, to the north, heard them around Fairfax..about 90 miles north of Richmond, close to DC.

 

[vibe]

Having made that boring I 95 trip from CT-FL I, like many others, I listen to ch 6 audio if theres a good program/sporting event on. My thing is golf and really found driving on a sun aft and listening to the audio of the tournament a treat. Going S the 1st ch 6 is Philly which comes in about 50 mi N and S of Philly along I-95. Then Ch 6 richmond comes in well from just N of Fredericksburg to the NC line,sometimes 10-20 mi into NC. When camping at a KOA near exit 154 in NC I got the Richmond Ch 6, it was snowy but it was 100 mi away. Was surprised it wasn't Wilmington. This was on a small 5" B and W. You can get the ch 6 audio from Wilmington from about mile market 130 or so (S of Rocky Mount until you are about 50 mi or so in SC. Camping at the KOA in Florence SC (mile 169?) ch 6 was only OK, watchable but snowy on the same 5" B and W. but it didn't lock in on the HH color TV at other times.
Then you can get the ch 6 Augusta GA(audio) for about the last 60 miles of SC and just barely into GA. But that's about 90-100 mi to the transmitter. I would judge the NC and GA ch 6's to be powerhouses. Ch 6 in orlando is so so along strtches of I 75 south of Ocala to Tampa . Dosen't seem to get out as far. When camping about 15 mi W of Tampa Ch 6 Orlando did not "lock" on the HH TV

 

[raedizzle2008]

Then Ch 6 richmond comes in well from just N of Fredericksburg to the NC line,sometimes 10-20 mi into NC. When camping at a KOA near exit 154 in NC I got the Richmond Ch 6, it was snowy but it was 100 mi away. Was surprised it wasn't Wilmington.

I've heard WTVR's audio on a car radio around Fairfax VA once..about 90-ish miles north of Richmond. I've also heard it in Charlottesville (though I couldn't seem to get a signal of any type while checking a "wabbit-ears" TV in a shop, but it could sorta get channels 8/12 from RIC.).

 

[quadraphonic]

On the FM, we can almost always hear WECT just north of Raleigh, NC, but I've never seen WECT on the TV here (WRAL channel 5 must affect it).
Every once in a while if we're driving just a few miles north of here, we can hear the channel 6 in Richmond on the radio.

Whereabouts in NC have you heard WTVR (Richmond's 6)? How many miles north of Raleigh? I've never heard them in NC, but have gotten them around South Hill & Emporia before on a friend's car radio some while back. And also, to the north, heard them around Fairfax..about 90 miles north of Richmond, close to DC.

I heard them a few times between Franklinton and Youngsville, I guess 20 miles north of Raleigh, usually if it was hot weather and getting dark or just dark.