Official Fox6 New Location Technical Report Thread

[dlhoppe]

I'm still getting a good (for WITI), watchable signal here near West Bend.

[Tom Snyder]

Getting an 81 signal strength in G'town....

[Hophead]

Fox 6 came in fine last night for me, there was some minor pixelation, but it was definitely watchable.  I still watched Family Guy on the Chicago 32-1 feed since they have better audio and video as far as I am concerned.

[pidd]

I am on 4 mile road in Caledonia with no luck at all.
Using HD Tivo and standard roof antenna. Everything else comes in fine. Why can't the packers be on 12-1.
get 17 on the HDTivo need about 40 to get a lock on it.
isn comes in at 89.

[Hophead]

I have an appointment to upgrade my antenna set-up for this Saturday with Voom.  I will let you know if that helps, I have issues with CBS 58 and Fox.  I'm not too nervous yet since the first Packers game is on ABC, no problems there and the second game will be on 32-1 (Fox  Chicago) which I have no problems receiving, so I basically have until 9/26 to get a strong consistent signal.   BTW I am off of Erie and 4 1/2 Mile Rd.

[Tom Sielicki]

So is this "as good as it gets"  for Fox6 for the near future or will they still improve on their power output?   Tom Snyder says he gets an 83 signal strength but I bet it is a false reading with some Wisn signal overloading his input.   Tell me your signal strength when Wisn is off the air.     I know alot of people are getting FOX6 now but it is very marginal and I bet they will get annoyed during packer games when pixelation occurs.

[RainDog]

New member weighing in.

I just started initial hookup of my HT:

42" ED panny
DirecTV HD Tivo receiver

Appx 60th and Vilet/Milwaukee area of Tosa.

I added a small attic UHF antenna on a temporary mount, eyeballed it to appx NNW direction and was able to get Fox 6.1 with a 90-92 signal.  All of the other digital channels were found with good signals.  Beginner's luck I guess....

I used the Schneider DB2 - $50 with shipping.
http://www.antennasdirect.com/IndoorAntennas.htm

I'll follow up to see how it works over the long haul.

-Steve

[Hophead]

Last night I did not lose the Fox 6 signal once and there was no pixelation either, although I only stayed on it for about 5 minutes at a time.  Was Big Mamas House in HD, the guide did not indicate that it was, but it sure appeared that it was.

[Todd Wiedemann]

Over on AVSforum, people that work at FOX have repeatedly said that NOTHING has been transmitted in native 720p yet,

Foxeng, you out there

[Hophead]

It sure looked like high def to me, did anyone else see Big Mommas House last night on Fox?  Am I losing my mind???

[Todd Wiedemann]

Originally posted by Hophead
It sure looked like high def to me, did anyone else see Big Mommas House last night on Fox?  Am I losing my mind???

I watched a bit. It did look good, I'll grant you that.

From what I understand, when a program is in HD, the transparent bug will be deep in the lower right corner. I remember seeing it way over last night ....

September 12 is the big day ...

[Joseph S]

September 12 is the big day ...

Are they gonna make it???

They tried to put up their antenna on the 5/1/02 deadline and came up empty.

Why this hasn't been accomplished prior to one week in advance is beyond me. They came out with this HD Football push, years after CBS and ABC, but it's their promotional gimmick and they aren't going to make it in most non NFC markets and perhaps some NFC markets as well. How does anyone get beat to the market by Sinclair?

[borghe]

I disagree with the CBS/ABC comparison. Yes CBS and ABC have been doing HD NFL for a couple years (MNF for only a year), but Fox imho is doing NFL HD right. Well, I mean ABC had 100% of their games in HD, but that doesn't count. Fox is giving us DOUBLE the HD CBS is, and TRIPLE what they were giving us prior to this year. If you are an NFC fan and you team isn't completely awful, you stand an extremely good chance of seeing all of your team's games on Fox in HD this year. Heck, even if your team is in last place from day one, you will still see MOST of their games in HD this year. CBS the best you can hope for is many of your team's games, and if you have a bad team, well, hopefully they hit ESPN/MNF/Fox sometime during the season..

What ABC and CBS have done in the past is nowhere near the coup Fox is pulling off this fall. I don't care how you look at it, 6 HD games a week is awesome. And what happens when football is over? What happens when they have those 6 (or more) production trucks running around the country looking for sports to cover? I'm willing to bet the NFL is only the tip of the iceberg for Fox..  I would be suprised to see a sport NOT in HD next year on Fox... has CBS or ABC done that?

and I'm not a fox fanboy, but damned if even the biggest fox critics can't admit that what they've done is virtually a revolution in HD broadcasts.

[StarvingForHDTV]

Is it too soon to start worrying that Fox NFL in HD will actually be 1 or 2 HD cameras and the rest wide screen standard defintiion?  I'm imagining Something similar to CBS's PGA Championship in "HD".  I hope I'm wrong about this.

[foxeng]

Originally posted by Todd Wiedemann
Over on AVSforum, people that work at FOX have repeatedly said that NOTHING has been transmitted in native 720p yet,

Foxeng, you out there

There had been rumors that BMH would be a HD test, but at the last minute they called it off. It was widescreen but not HD through the splicer.

Do you guys know if WITI has their splicer on line yet?