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UHF vs VHF digital reception

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Although I can not recieve WBBM-DT in Downers Grove, it does quite well in Union Pier, Mi.

Last Monday night, a cold front was sweeping across Lake Michigan and with it heavy rains. While the signals from digital UHF channels were extremely unstable, WBBM-DT held firm with no cliffing! Is this a sign of things to come?
 
Yes and no. Signals will be stronger after all the changes with antennas and channels, but the basic nature of digital reception
will still be a problem for a great many people who get along with less-than-ideal analog signals.

Major pixellation, freezing and dropouts are the new "snow".

Best of luck with your tower, rotor and Yagi installations, everyone.
 
Hope 'YIN plans to increase their digi power soon. Cannot pickup 17dt in Elmhurst with rooftop or butterfly
antenna. I noticed their analog signal on 56 has decreased a lot also.

C'mon Indiana... get with it!
 
overtheair said:
Hope 'YIN plans to increase their digi power soon. Cannot pickup 17dt in Elmhurst with rooftop or butterfly
antenna. I noticed their analog signal on 56 has decreased a lot also.

C'mon Indiana... get with it!
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I don't know if WYIN will be making changes to the power output, and the directional pattern they have now. WNDU-TV already signed off on 16, and stayed on their digital channel of 42. So the null toward South Bend could be eliminated there. Once WLFI 18 Lafayette, Indiana, signs off analog (they can't sign off yet, due to being the only TV station in that market), then the null toward Lafayette can be eliminated, since they're staying on channel 11 for digital. I do believe that any changes would have to wait until June 12th, and that's when WYIN is shutting their analog off (unlike WYCC, who already signed off on analog).

Also, since WYIN is staying at their Cedar Lake site for financial reasons, I don't know that any changes will push the signal out further. Since moving to any Chicago skyscraper is cost prohibitive for them, they won't become a full market station. I don't get all the Chicago digital stations yet, and I especially don't get a signal from WYCC DT-21 since they shut off their analog. I don't know if the digital antenna is being moved up higher, or other work is being done, that I don't receive WYCC now.
 
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