Fox 6 HD

[borghe]

chure, with the channelmaster and in tosa, make sure you do something to cut your signal. You'll pull in WISN too strong and it will hurt your WITI signal. By cutting my signal by around 3-5dB or so I actually gained around 10 points on WITI. You can acheive this either by buying an attenuator (preferably adjustable) or rotating the antenna further away from WISN (in Tosa that should be more east).

[Tunebug]

Can anyone give me any advice on picking up WITI-DT in oak creek?  (I live way south...near Howell and the county line)  I pick up all other local digital signals just fine.  Is Fox currently at low power?  What about attenuation?  I pick up the digital signals for 12 and 36 just fine (34 and 35 digital), so apparently the WISN signal is not causing a problem with the WMVT signal.  Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

[Gregg Lengling]

This thread has been covered many times and you can use the search function on this board to find how different persons in different areas cured the problem or gave up.  Fox6 digital is on channel 33 and running low power with an antenna pattern that ONLY favors the West from their tower.  Being on 33 with WISN on 34 running high power causes most receivers to reduce their gain and make 33 unusable.  Some have found cures using attenuators and others by pointing their antenna so it doesn't get WISN so strong...up here in Cedarburg I only get about them 10 or 20% of the time...not enough to watch.

[chure]

borghe- thanks for the input.  But where am I able to pick up a channel master 4228 locally?

Will reaiming my existing, antenna (4ft. boom w/ elements) more east vs NNE help?  I'm able to get all the the OTA channels(4,6,12,36,58 etc) sometimes but then I'm not able to get them at other times.  I don't know if it's more frustrating not ever being able to recieve a picture, or being able to recieve a picture sometimes, but not when I actually want to watch something!

thanks

[gobble]

Welcome to the club.  WITI and all the people there are a piece if sh$@.  They're no help and could care less about our problem.  The only advice these morons have is to buy cable.

[borghe]

chure - yes, aiming your antenna more easternly could help.. especially where you are so relatively close to the towers they are a further beamwidth apart (I think that's what it's called). the rest of the stations are relatively high power so their reception should be minimally impacted. The only other one you might have to watch is 58, as its tower is in the same relative area as WISN's, meaning you will be reducing its signal also.

[Tunebug]

FYI...I sent an email directly to Fox 6 (I used the Contact 6 address, but I can not say for sure if this reply is from Katrina or not...) and here is their response....


This is the latest from our engineering department:

WITI is presently broadcasting a low power DTV signal
on CH-33.  People outside the local Milwaukee area may
have problems receiving our signal.  If you are having
problems with off air reception of FOX 6 on CH-33 DT,
slowly rotate your antenna while watching your set.
The signal may come in at a point when the antenna
doesn't appear to be pointing at our tower on Capital
Drive (this is due to a shadowing affect cause by the
full power station on CH-34).  If you get the signal
lock down you antenna in that location.  

If you can't receive the signal with the above method,
my only other recommendation is to use Time Warner
Cable.  

WITI is requesting approval to go to full power, but we
do not expect to have our plans completed and on the
air before late Spring/early Summer - 2005.

[Joseph S]

If you can't receive the signal with the above method,
my only other recommendation is to use Time Warner
Cable.

Sounds again like "Contact 6" is a fraud. Yeah, don't buy a $3 cleaning product that only performs as well as the $2.99 competitor, but you should spend $60 a month with TWC for eternity to get 1 channel thanks to the fine folks at "Contact 6."

[Tom Snyder]

They're not telling you anything different than what they've been telling analog 6 viewers for decades who haven't been able to pick up THAT OTA signal... adjust your antenna or get cable.

The only difference is that they can't say cable OR satellite for the digital signal... but that's not their fault, it's Dish/DTV.  

And it's not quite $60 per month... it's basic cable with a High Def box... I think that ends up being $18 per month.

[tazman]

Sounds again like "Contact 6" is a fraud. Yeah, don't buy a $3 cleaning product that only performs as well as the $2.99 competitor, but you should spend $60 a month with TWC for eternity to get 1 channel thanks to the fine folks at "Contact 6."

Do you really think Katrina is going to bite the hand that feeds her.  I am just as ticked at times as everyone else is, especially now that it's Packer season.  I for one, sure would like to see WCGV go HD on 24.1 along with WITI uping their power and adding a few more candles to their tower, pointing North and South.
  As far as Contact-6 is concerned, I have had the privalage of using their service in regards to a roofing contractor that was not paying subs, with immediate and satisfying results.  Again, Do you really think Katrina is going to bite the hand that feeds her.