Great site for identifying TV stations to your location.

[kjnorman]

I just discovered this awesome site that is being hosted by a regular at AVS and the TiVoCommunity.

http://www.2150.com/broadcast/default.asp

You enter in you longitude and lattitute, magnetic declination (-3 for Milwaukee) and it will give you TV stations, location, signal radiation patern etc.

Awesome.

Tom, perhaps a link to add to the home page?

Kerry

[Detritus]

Very cool. I also like that it shows what type of antenna they use.

[Tom Snyder]

Thanks for the heads up... New link is on the home page.

[dlhoppe]

According to this site, WDJT (11.7 kw) is putting out less than WITI (16.7 kw) !!  No wonder I can't pick them up anymore!  When did they drop their transmitter power?  I used to get a very strong signal in West Bend.  Now I get zilch.

[Gregg Lengling]

WDJT-DT has been running this same amount of power since they went on the air.  There haven't been any changes...however you have to remember that Trees cause attenuation of signals and it's that time of the year that the trees are now leafing out.

[dlhoppe]

Thanks for the info. I've been running my setup since early Sept last year. It wasn't until about 2 months ago that I stopped receiving WDJT.  For the life of me I can't figure out what happened. I have not changed a thing with my equipment other than to try and fine-tune the antenna direction to try and fix the problem. I got a little improvement, but still no WDJT.

I'm thinking there must be something wrong with my antenna. There is a little circuit board in a small box on my antenna that has what looks like a choke. Does anyone have any idea what this is? Are they prone to failure?  I do notice that the UHF channels via the NTSC tuner are very poor in terms of reception. Are all digital channels picked up via the UHF portion of the antenna?  Could there be some correlation?

Any comments and/or suggestions would be appreciated.

[Gregg Lengling]

The device you are talking about is probably just a balun.  A balun is a transformer...what it does is change the impedance of the antenna (300 ohms) to match the impedance of the coax and the receiver (75 ohms).  Normally those boxes are sealed against the weather. They are rather cheap and you can pick up a new one at Radio Shack or any other store (FleetFarm, Wally World ect) and replace it.  It should have twin lead coming out to attach to the antenna and a coax connector to hook up to the coax.  However this should not be confused with a box that also has some small items in it...that would be a preamp and there should be a power supply injecting power to your coax someplace.  If that fails you could end up with real poor reception.  Instead of amplifying the signals anywhere from 6 to 20 dB it will instead attenuate them 20 dB or more.

[dlhoppe]

Looks like my problem turned out to be my Hugh's E86 receiver. Somehow the sensitivity to signals went south on me. I just hooked up my new Samsung STB and it gets everything just fine except for WITI, but I didn't expect that one anyway.  However, I can now pick up some stations I've never had before; WFRV (5-1), WBAY (2-1, 2-2) and WLUK (11-1).  I haven't checked, but I believe they're all Green Bay stations.  Go figure, my antenna must be picking them up from the backend since it's pointed at Milwaukee. I guess I can live with that!  

Greg,  thanks for the info on the antenna components. Fortunately it looks like all is well in that dept after all.

[HiDefDon]

Here is another link for Milwaukee broadcasting stations...


http://www.tvradioworld.com/region1/wi/tv_information.asp?m=mil

The info for Dallas is pretty accurate so hopefully it will be good for Milwaukee too.

DonP