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WRNT 48 back to Test pattern again, this time in B&W?

DJKraze

DJKraze

Yesterday at about 11am, the signal for RTN started cutting out and at some point, did not return, now there's a test pattern with no color???

I know RTN is supposed to be retro, but how retro does WRNT want it to be?

Then of course there's always the network of the semester club, which WRNT seems to be a member, I guess time is up for RTN? if so, I hope one of the other stations either on Avon or rattlesnake gets it for a sub channel.
 
I've been meaning to start a thread about WRNT for a while. For the past few weeks, the signal has been breaking up ALL THE TIME. It's a shame because I was really enjoying watching "To Catch a Thief" and Hitchcock at night! I have to wonder what's going on with their dish. A tree in the way? Does it need to be cleaned?

Anyway I see the test pattern now. I wonder if they may have had a power failure due to the storms last night. Maybe someone just needs to push a button to change the signal. But is anyone staffing the channel?
 
It's becoming very frustrating, I just checked it 10 minutes ago as I did an analog scan to see what's coming in, and it was color bars again, I check it right now and it's back. I've been checking in on it at random times and it's never stable anymore, sometimes it's there, sometimes black screen, sometimes color bars. Come on ch 48! You'e got a potential audience, but you need to keep the programming on the air to keep us.
 
DJKraze said:
It's becoming very frustrating, I just checked it 10 minutes ago as I did an analog scan to see what's coming in, and it was color bars again, I check it right now and it's back. I've been checking in on it at random times and it's never stable anymore, sometimes it's there, sometimes black screen, sometimes color bars. Come on ch 48! You'e got a potential audience, but you need to keep the programming on the air to keep us.
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Do whatever it takes to get WSAH. Off air with a decent antenna and preamp, or via Cox DIGITAL 75 on the Manchester system.
 
WRNT looked good last night!

Also, WRNT is shows RTV 24 hours a day, not just 6 hours a night like WSAH (and with the correct prime time lineup).
 
Whale said:
WRNT looked good last night!

Also, WRNT is shows RTV 24 hours a day, not just 6 hours a night like WSAH (and with the correct prime time lineup).
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There is no correct prime time line-up. It is my understanding from reading on the Sitcoms Online Blogs that each affiliate can pick and choose whatever shows they want and air them whatever time they want.
 
Hmmm.. interesting. Well I know WRNT has its shows at the same times as the Providence RTV subchannel. It Takes A Thief at 11 and Alfred Hitchcock Presents at midnight, I love it!
 
I'm in Middletown and I have multiple antennas running into a combiner then into a preamp and then into another combiner that adds an amplified antenna to the mix. Each antenna does a specific job, but I get everything Avon mountain has to give as far as analog. This system used to do some DX of the Boston market pre-DTV transition and I've pulled in the old analog PBS ch 41 in Vermont (WVTA?) with it. I currently do not get any analog from New Haven's LPTV stations. New Haven DTV is also not happening (WTNH has only about 30-49% signal and doesn't come in, but I know with slight tweaking it will, WCTX is 9% and I have never been able to get it). As it stands, these are all antennas inside my attic as I can't put one on the roof after the antenna I had put up there when I first moved in took down the chimney during a snow storm, the landlord was decent about it but said, nothing else (it was too old to take the weight and crumbled). I have done as much experimentation as I can with the exception of getting more of them and I'm pretty sure I'm going to get only what I get now, so even though I wold love to be able to get WSAH, unless an internet stream becomes available or it goes up on Dish (because I'm not going back to Comcast) I have to settle for WRNT, or maybe WJAR, as I hear they are about to bump up the wattage and I do pretty good in that direction (I have yet to get any Providence/Boston DTV though). I will always keep trying and who knows, maybe I'll get WSAH.

Scorecard: Pre-DTV I got most of southern New England, post DTV, just Hartford/New London and some Springfield.
 
I don't even get WRNT-LP in New Britain's south end, so don't feel bad. I only get a hint of WRDM-LP (TEL) on channel 50, but just sound, mostly.
 
They get their RTN feeds via KU Band.

RTN (RTV) can be found in the clear on AM9 at 83.0 W
Frequency is 11735 H and the SR is 4444

Unfortunately that transponders power is very weak which would explain the dropouts on WRNT. If they had a bigger dish (I am guessing they are using a 90 CM dish.) A 1.2 meter Dish would do them a world of good. I pick up RTN with no issues or dropouts on my 1.2 meter Dish. (I haven't tried it on the new 10 foot Dish I installed over the weekend, but I would imagine no problem picking it up.) :D
 
I was surfing last night when I came across WSAH around 11:00pm and saw the RetroTV logo. I googled RTv and was estatic when I saw their lineup and then was dismayed at midnight when they went to Info commercials and only run RTv for a few hours a day. All the shows I was hoping to tape are programmed in the morning and WSAH does air them. What a bummer.
I also found out that WRNT is an affliant but my cable provider COX in Southington does not carry them.
I don't understand all that you guys are talking about but it seems that we all like the old shows that RTv sends out.
The question I have is if I bought a digital signal converter would that be all that I need to try and pick up WRNT's signal?
I live on top of a hill not in a valley so I might have a pretty good shot at getting a signal. I also have a daughter in Newington that I could try and see if she gets a signal.
Any help would be appreciated because this is the only channel showing anything from the 50s - 70s worth watching since TVLAND went upscale.I wish Dish would pick them up.
 
hank said:
I also found out that WRNT is an affliant but my cable provider COX in Southington does not carry them.
I don't understand all that you guys are talking about but it seems that we all like the old shows that RTv sends out.
The question I have is if I bought a digital signal converter would that be all that I need to try and pick up WRNT's signal?
I live on top of a hill not in a valley so I might have a pretty good shot at getting a signal. I also have a daughter in Newington that I could try and see if she gets a signal.
Any help would be appreciated because this is the only channel showing anything from the 50s - 70s worth watching since TVLAND went upscale.I wish Dish would pick them up.
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WRNT is in analog for now. a Set top converter won't work for that., your TV set's old internal analog tuner will do the trick. WRNT broadcasts at low power from the WCCC-FM tower on Route 44 between W Hartford and Avon. Aim your antenna basically towards the West Hartford Avon line, and you should do ok. You will want a good high gain UHF antenna to pick up the signal. (Where you are you might have problems with an indoor antenna, but a attic antenna or roof top antenna might work better).
 
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