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Reception at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Areas

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alg2468

I'm curious to find out from those of you who live near the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun areas of Eastern Connecticut as to what OTA DTV channels you receive and how well are they received.
 
Eastern CT is quite far away from the DTV transmitters in Hartford-Providence-New Haven. Several locals in the area. If you live on a hill, reception can be quite amazing but if you live in a hole and don't have cable, the pickins can be slim to none with slim leaving town fast.
We lived in a hole in Mystic Ct. And that was during the analog days....
 
I guess the only chance would be WHPX. They are on a tall tower in Montville/Waterford.
I would also assume you have a slightly better chance for WTNH (New Haven) at Mohegan over Foxwoods, but I could be wrong.
 
I went to Foxwoods about a week ago and took along an Auvio 3.5" portable TV, and was able to pick up WHPX-DT 26 from New London and WEDN-DT 53 from Norwich very well. WPXQ-DT 69 came in some spots there. WVIT-DT 35 and WTIC-DT 61 gave such a poor signal they were barely able to register any signal. Those were the only channels I could receive.
 
I was not sure if I should start another thread with the following, so I'll just reply to this one:

Back in the late 1980's, my family was vacationing at a motel in Montauk. The TV in the main room, I am not sure exactly how it was set up, because it was not cable, but the VHF channels duplicated; e.g. WFSB/3 was on channels 2 through 4, WLNE/6 on 5 and 6, etc. WTNH, WJAR and WPRI rounded out the VHF dial.

There was another TV in a bedroom and it picked up then-WTWS clear as a bell; the other stations, not so much.

I seem to recall years later that the TV in the main room was able to pick up other stations from as far as Boston.
 
Was it one of those TV sets that had the 14 preset buttons that you would tune manually with those thumbwheels? That would explain why the channels were duplicated, because it seems a lot of people didn't know how to set those up.
 
If I recall correctly, it was a tuner. I remember turning the dial on a Sunday afternoon and golf was on channels 2 through 6.
 
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