WMGM-DT questions

[Nertz!]

I have on occasion gotten WMGM's non-digital signal in Wyndmoor and have yet to get their digital signal.Are they at full power?Is the signal directional?Is the transmitter at the same location as the -TV?

 

[fred flintstone]

"Arcane minutiae" is in the eye of the beholder.Out in the real world, everything on this board is arcane minutiae.

 

[Nertz!]

And thank you for sharing that really useful information.

 

[fred flintstone]

Maybe I wasn't obvious enough.This post makes you the LAST person who should suggest Julius (or anyone else) is fixated on narrow or inconsequential issues.People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

 

[Nertz!]

My question was a legitamate technical question as opposed to Julius May's juvenile griping about things. If he hates things so much in Philadelphia he should move. Please stop wasting bandwith on such nonsense!

 

[fred flintstone]

One person's arcane minutiae and nonsesne is another's legitimate question.I do not find the issues Julius raises to be a waste of bandwidth.You are not King of the Internet. Just because you are not interested does not mean something should not be discussed.However, my own personal bias is people should not clutter up a broadcasting board with questions the answers to which they could look up for themselves - and that a broadcasting board is not a forum for technical questions. There are engineering boards (here and on other sites) for such discussions. Julius' posts deal with programming and with creative and business issues - topics of much broader interest than the one you raised.But this is America and you have a right to raise it. Please don't deny others the right to talk about things in which they are interested.

 

[rch66]

I have a UHF outdoor antenna, but no rotor at this time. But I back in my old place, I had a rotor (but no UHF antenna). Never really pulled in WMGM except for tropo days. Maybe if I had both going, with the rotor facing SE, I would have picked it up. Then again there is little point to get a rotor to watch programming from SouthEast or WMGM in the first place. Makes more sense to do it for NY, if anything.WMGM's analog and digital transmitter are in Swainton, NJ.Keep in mind there is a low power CH.40 out of Wilmington. That may cause interference in picking up WMGM if you are to the west and near that. It used to run TBN for the longest time. They finally switched to something else (after WGTW 48 became a full powered TBN) As of today, the programming on UHF 40 is running Smile of a Child, also seen on WGTW-DT .5.I don't understand this case, as I thought full powered signals have protection from possible interference. If WMGM is a licensed full power station, my understanding is they should be able to have the frequency unused by competing low powered stations within the 60 mile area, no matter if WMGM doesn't actually transmit to reach 60 miles. I don't think WXTV 41, the Spanish Univision station from NY, would like it if a low power CH.41 was operating out of Florence, NJ.