How long does a strong tropo last on UHF? Is it like a E-skip?
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Tincap said:
Indeed! I had a customer, a software company, on Adelaide Street right around the corner from CITY-TV in the '90s. A very "in" neighborhood loaded with restaurants, shops, bars, and clubs. I think some of that atmosphere definitely rubbed off on CITY's programming. But I always got a kick out of watching Harold Hossein's weather forecasts. He was the in-house "straight arrow", aside from the fact that he usually did the weather from the roof of the building....or even out in the street! Is he still at CITY? Does he still do that? He also used to be the regular weather guy on CFRB radio.
I'll have to remember to tune in when I'm in town at the end of this week.
MarioMania said:
Tropo is different than e-skip in that the signal is rather consistent and stable with tropo unlike e-skip and the conditions can last as long as with VHF signals but windy conditions tend to make the signal look somewhat like e-skip from my experiences. Seems that tropo across bodies of water were much more common than all over land for UHF from what I've seen but maybe others have experienced it otherwise. Tropo usually brings in stations much closer than does e-skip especially for UHF.
MarcB said:
Yes, it was originally stand-alone, Pittsfield-based (but Adams was the COL) Dumont affiliate WMGT-TV Channel 74 beginning in February 1954. It added ABC in 1955.
Per the 1957-58 Telecasting Yearbook, it was forced off the air in February 1956 when high winds toppled their tower. It was sold to the owners of then-WCDA Ch. 41 (now WTEN Ch. 10) Albany and returned to the air a year later as WCDA satellite WCDC Ch. 19. It is the same license as WMGT, but I don't think it ever operated on 74 as WCDC or on 19 as WMGT (unless it was for a very brief period - can't find any documentation on it).
I grew up about 25mi or so from the Greylock Mtn site in Adams, Ma and did not know WMGT-74 was the predecessor of WCDC-19 until I met a gentleman who lived in the Adams area during that timeframe. His recollection was that WMGT was plauged with technical problems that came to an end with the tower failure.
I grew up in Ottumwa, Iowa and spent many hours watching K74CO and K76BZ, translators of KCCI and WHO Des Moines. They moved down the dial in 87 or 88 when cellular came to the area. A year or two before that switch I remember advising someone to check and make sure the TV they were planning to buy could tune above 69.
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crainbebo said:
Thank you
KeithE4 said:
The channel assignment for North Adams MA (Mt. Greylock) was changed from Channel 74 to 19 on 10/20/54 (published on 11/1). Channel 74 was moved to Bennington VT (never built AFAIK), replacing Channel 33. In the station listings for 11/22/54, WMGT is shown as being on Channel 74, while in the listings for 11/29/54, it's shown on Channel 19.
I saw that in Cincinnati on an indoor antenna in the 1960's. Height is everything.audioguy said:
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