Well...WHAS 11 is now DT on 11. 1.27 kilowatts of transmitter power. And I get it GREAT at 70 miles. Is anyone regularly seeing WHAS 11 at a greater distance?
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WHAS DT 11
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I am also now seeing WHAS DT11 here in SW Lexington, KY. Antenna is just a simple, smaller VHF/UHF model (unamplified) about 55 feet up on my ham tower. For what its worth, WBNA DT-21 (RF ch8) is also always seen here as well as Channel 34 DT. WLKY and WDRB are iffy at best. Forget about WAVE. Their Million watts don't seem to come this way. I have tried to contact WAVE, but they ignore my emails. Guess they don't care about their "former" faraway viewers like me. Their analog signal here was perfect.... WAVE really gave up a lot of coverage area in the DTV switchover by abandoning that really tall, analog tower in LaGrange.
greg.hahn said:
The tower wouldn't been a mistake if WAVE built it twenty or thirty years earlier. Back in the day, WAVE had viewers well into Central KY. When it was built the dominance wasn't the same especially since Franklin County became part of the Lexington market.
I'm seeing WAVE, WHAS, WLKY, WDRB & WMYO perfect 24/7 80 miles north of the river on I-65. WKPC DT 17 is there at least 90%. Judging from their directional pattern & some rough math, they are sending about 20KW @ 777' my way...a far cry from the 1000KW @ 1225+' that some of the others have CP's for. Worthy of note...WHAS DT has a CP to go from 5.2KW ERP omni to 19KW ERP directional. On paper, it should have the same 5.2KW my way when it is implemented. I hope they actually verify that it does. I lost their DT 55 when WCLJ DT started pumping out 429KW at 12 miles. I have WHAS back now...I hope their DA plans don't cause another MIA condition here. WHAS has to be pretty happy....their tower lights now use more electricity than their transmitter does.KR4BD said:
Except for not being located with the other towers in Floyds Knob, would WAVE be better off transmitting from its Oldham County tower? Would they mirror their analog coverage with a digital signal on that tower? Does WAVE have a tower on the Knobs, or are they sharing a tower with someone else?radiorob2.0 said:
with rabbit ears, essentially where the stonybrook theatres are, i can only get wave pretty good most of the time, wdrb strongly and wmyo strongly. wlky comes in sometimes maybe. everything else not at all. this was before the transition and after it with several rescans. i could pick up 11 analog signals and now reliably i can only get 2 and i am in the city.
I believe WAVE is using the tower they used prior to the "5 Million Dollar Mistake" as I believe Greg called it. They had the option of using their big stick for DT, but chose the Knobs. IIRC, that is the biggest tower in this part of the country. The biggest tower in Indiana (WTTV 4) is 12 miles west of me & tops out at 1132'. The LaGrange site blows that away by hundreds of feet. My brother lives near Kings Island & he saw WAVE 3 most days...no more. 1 million watts of UHF at 1738' above ground would smoke...but would it have a killer signal downtown at 23 miles? 1 million watts at 23 miles or 1 million watts at 9 miles? Seems like an easy choice.KyDXIn said:
While we're on the subject of DTV...I live on the east side of Downtown Louisville, and WBNA DT-8 is just a rumor. I've put converter boxes and digital tuner-equipped TVs with all kinds of antennas in the central city, and WBNA does not light up on any one.
I believe that a low antenna height and terrain shielding from one of the three knobs between their Bullitt County antenna (Holsclaw, Cardinal and/or Iroquois Hills) and Downtown are knocking them out-cold!
Down here, WHAS was a bit shaky after their Channel 55 to 11 DTV change, but after they finished their tweaking, is now solid. WAVE DT-47 has always been rock-solid, WLKY-DT 26 is stable (they took 32-2 out of the system, by the way), WDRB-DT 51 is stable, WMYO DT-55 has stability problems occasionally and is the most sensitive to antenna adustment, KET's Channel 17 packet is stable, my converter dithers around WBKI on Channel 19 but won't acquire the signal, the WJYL packet on Channel 16 will scan in from Jeffersonville but has problems with video lock (I know they're low power), and WBNA DT-8 has the aforementioned problems.
I believe that a low antenna height and terrain shielding from one of the three knobs between their Bullitt County antenna (Holsclaw, Cardinal and/or Iroquois Hills) and Downtown are knocking them out-cold!
Down here, WHAS was a bit shaky after their Channel 55 to 11 DTV change, but after they finished their tweaking, is now solid. WAVE DT-47 has always been rock-solid, WLKY-DT 26 is stable (they took 32-2 out of the system, by the way), WDRB-DT 51 is stable, WMYO DT-55 has stability problems occasionally and is the most sensitive to antenna adustment, KET's Channel 17 packet is stable, my converter dithers around WBKI on Channel 19 but won't acquire the signal, the WJYL packet on Channel 16 will scan in from Jeffersonville but has problems with video lock (I know they're low power), and WBNA DT-8 has the aforementioned problems.
King Bee
Believe it or not, WBNA (DT8) is rock solid here in SW Lexington. Funny, their analog signal on Ch 21 was rarely seen here! WBNA and WBKI-DT are the only Louisville area stations that I would call 100% at my home. WAVE and WMYO are rarely seen in DT. WHAS, now that they are only Ch 11DT is now about 50% where I never saw them when they were on Ch55. Digitial WLKY and WDRB are also seen frequently, but not 100%. My antenna is up about 55'. It is a smaller sized Radio Shack VHF/UHF model with a rotator. The next time I have some antenna work to do on my tower, I will replace that antenna with something offering a little more gain.
Believe it or not, WBNA (DT8) is rock solid here in SW Lexington. Funny, their analog signal on Ch 21 was rarely seen here! WBNA and WBKI-DT are the only Louisville area stations that I would call 100% at my home. WAVE and WMYO are rarely seen in DT. WHAS, now that they are only Ch 11DT is now about 50% where I never saw them when they were on Ch55. Digitial WLKY and WDRB are also seen frequently, but not 100%. My antenna is up about 55'. It is a smaller sized Radio Shack VHF/UHF model with a rotator. The next time I have some antenna work to do on my tower, I will replace that antenna with something offering a little more gain.
OOPS-I mwant WDRB-DT 49 and WMYO-DT 51. KR4BD, your ability to see WBNA-DT 8 clearly to the east reinforces my suspicion of close-in terrain shielding obliterating their Downtown Louisville coverage, almost due north of their tower.Even outdoor antenna MATV systems with elements turned right at the WBNA tower won't cut it here.
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