[junooni]

Anyone getting it right now? I've lost the channel Everything else is just fine as it is usually.

 

[greywolf]

It's ok here at 8:02pm

 

[junooni]

Hmm. guess i need to go check my wires again. been a while.


Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[greywolf]

Before you dig too deep, I'll add that I usually get it at 100 and now it's coming in at 86.

 

[KSP]

I'm not getting a signal now either. I usually get 93-100% on WGN. Every other channel is the same as before.

 

[rad]

Not in Mundelein (Dish 6000) my SS normally in the 90's is all over the place. Time for someone to call the station, it's been this way since Monday evening which is when others reported that they lost the station.

 

[meany]

My signal is usually pegged to the max but I noticed yesterday that the signal had dropped by a 1/3.

 

[rad]

OK, I'm still having problems with WGN-DT on my D6K, I asked a friend that also has a D6K and he also can't get WGN-DT anymore since Monday. I called the station and was dumped into a voice mail box at engineering, left a discription of the problem and my home phone, no call back.


If you're having any problems with WGN-DT please update this thread and I'll try e-mailing the link to WGN, maybe someone will finally look into the problem at their end. Thanks - Rick

 

[greywolf]

I emailed a link to this thread last Tuesday.

 

[retromzc]

Coming in fine here, but ss is a bit lower than usual, like everyone else says, been like this since Monday night.

 

[FunkyBoss]

WGN is coming in fine, but like others here, I have noticed that the signal is a little weaker then before. I'm probably getting it around 65-70%.

 

[rad]

OK, my WGN-DT signal is back to where it used to be before 5/5. Are others that couldn't receive them able to now and are the folks that saw lower signal #'s back to where they used to be??? Thanks - Rick

 

[greywolf]

I'm back to 100 again.

 

[mdrazin]

Greetings all,


I work in the Engineering Department at WGN TV. I apologize for the delay in responding to your comments in this tread concerning our signal problems over the past few days. It's taken a bit to work through this issue as you'll read below.


Pls re-check your DT tuners - I believe you will find things back to normal at this time.


We had an anomaly in the digital transmitter early last week that has given us some real challenges. The input processing path is fully redundant - two exciters and matched drivers - either pair of which can drive the final RF amplifiers to develop full power. One exciter/driver chain utilizes first generation technology - the other third generation. They are supposed to be interchangeable - when one fails the other is supposed to automatically take over and the output power is maintained. Our third generation chained failed early last week - we switched to the other chain and all our monitoring parameters remained nominal. It was only after receiving several reports of signal problems that we started checking further, and discovered that there was an anomaly in the first generation chain that was impacting the viewer's received signal strength - even though the transmitter was still broadcasting at it's licensed power. We were able to finally understand the problem this morning, and correct it.


Thanks again for your patience. We're all learning - and we're going to make sure we don't have a repeat of this problem in the future.

 

[greywolf]

Thanks for the info Marc. Your hard work just to make sure 2 guys at Circuit City can watch HDTV is much appreciated.

 

[KSP]

Thanks for the update. I just checked and WGN is back at ~100% for me too.

 

[greywolf]

Everwood tonight had the green dot problem that plagued CBS some time back. It only showed up during the program, not the commercials.