As of today June, 11 Ft,Wayne has Digital 36 Fox . The omni directional antenna is mounted 200 feet off the ground with 100 watts running to the antenna. I am located 8 miles from the tower and only once did the signal lock on for 3 minutes. NBC digital 19 is on and the panel antenna is side mounted to the tower at 400 feet above ground level with 500 watts running to the antenna. I can lock on to this signal and do see some break ups every few minutes. Pbs digital 40-1 40-2 is on and thier new antenna is mounted at the top of 700 ft tower. HDTV is only on 40-1 PBS. TBN digital 12 is located 26 miles North East of here and is viewable. Of course a Highband VHF antenna is aimed only at this station. I was told by the Chief Engr. at WISE TV digital 19 that a new rulling is coming down that to have a total digital tv market and analog shut off forever, Eighty percent of the market must have digital receivers. hOW IN THE hell ARE THESE idiots GOING TO KEEP A COUNT? Analog tv is here for quite sometime and this area for Digital conversion is making me sick.
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I got a kick out of WISE's commercial stating they're the first local HD channel. As far as I recall, WFWA beat them to it. Also, could WISE possibly transmit one 16:9 1080i broadcast over the air instead of up converting and cropping 4:3 material? I'll stick to my current gray HD selections
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I live in Hearthstone off Wallen so I'm pretty close to you. I do get WFFT-DT 36 but the signal is very weak. I use an indoor Recoton antenna connected to an amp which I found works better than the Silver Sensor. My SS is going back to Best Buy. I've tried using an outdoor VHF antenna indoors and was unable to get WINM-DT. Depending on signal strengths when all of the DTV channels go live, I'll probably put an antenna on my house with a rotor.
I live on the east side of town a little past georgetown. I get 36-1 around 35% with a Zenith SS in my attic. I usually pull everything else in at 75 - 100 percent. I have it split running to two rooms with about 75 feet of coax run without an amp and it works great.
TKO: I noticed that advertisement on WISE last night that they were the first but it says commercially funded or something like that at the bottom for a split second, so maybe they changed it after a few complaints from WFWA. And I also hate the way that they crop everything.
TKO: I noticed that advertisement on WISE last night that they were the first but it says commercially funded or something like that at the bottom for a split second, so maybe they changed it after a few complaints from WFWA. And I also hate the way that they crop everything.
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Well, I live out on the southwest side of Huntington and tonight I've been able to latch into PBS-39.01 & 39.02 quite well (still working on what the actual signal strength is). I've got an amplified indoor antenna and it's worked great so far. Still getting some digital artifacts on the screen every now and then.
Speaking of which, does anyone know a good antenna installer in the area?
Speaking of which, does anyone know a good antenna installer in the area?
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Is WISE running at full power yet? Reason I ask is that I've never been able to get a lock on signal wise out here in Huntington. The only thing I can consistently get is WFWA.
I also live in Huntington. Been waiting to purchase ota HDTV receiver until Ft. Wayne was broadcasting. Although their power output is currently very low, they are at least making an attempt. Hopefully by fall they will all have turned up their power so that I can get them. Would be great to get all of the ota programming that I currently don't get.
Right now I only have D*, no locals except the analog signal I get with rabbit ears, and this doesn't look good on hdtv set.
It's great to hear some positive news about Ft. Wayne stations broadcasting digital!!
Right now I only have D*, no locals except the analog signal I get with rabbit ears, and this doesn't look good on hdtv set.
It's great to hear some positive news about Ft. Wayne stations broadcasting digital!!
My new Zenith HDV420 shipped today! I'm in Van Wert and have a large (RS# VU-120 XR) roof mounted antenna with a rotor. I'm hoping to receive everything from Ft. Wayne and Lima, OH. With any luck, I'll also get Bowling Green and Angola.
Sorry to hear about WISE upconverting and cropping
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Any tips for a new guy?
Sorry to hear about WISE upconverting and cropping
Any tips for a new guy?
bwohlgemuth: I emailed WISE's engineer last week asking him that and he said that right now they just have their temporary antenna up and that in the next month they will have something permanent up. He also stated that they are not currently broadcasting in HD, that the current plan is to just feed the standard across digital. Even though their commercial states that they are the first in commericially funded station in fort wayne to broadcast in HD.
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And of course, after I sent that post I got my first lock-on with WISE tonight. It said "Hi Def" but it looked like upconverted 480i to 1080i personally.
Nov 30th?
That stinks. It seems that CBS has the most primetime television programs in HD of all the networks and that will be the last channel for us to get. Not only that CBS uses 1080i, which for most people gives the best experience. It would be nice to get some football games in hi-def in the fall and definetely March Madness will be great come next spring.
Having ABC this fall will be good though, MNF in HD will be great!
That stinks. It seems that CBS has the most primetime television programs in HD of all the networks and that will be the last channel for us to get. Not only that CBS uses 1080i, which for most people gives the best experience. It would be nice to get some football games in hi-def in the fall and definetely March Madness will be great come next spring.
Having ABC this fall will be good though, MNF in HD will be great!
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I can deal without the Dolts games (and I'm not too surprised about WANE's lack of progress). Just as long as ABC is broadcasting by Sept 28th, I'll be happy!
WANE is still dealing with the FCC in finalizing its DTV channel switch from 4 to 31. There are a number of steps the company (LIN....sister station to WISH, Indy) has had to deal with and some of those are still continuing. In order to make the switch they even had to wait for Canadian approval due to Ft. Wayne's proximity to the border. It is unfortunate that WANE-DT was originally assigned ch. 4 in an all UHF market. From what I know this is one of the main reasons for the new channel request. From what I know locally and have read online, LIN has done a nice job getting DTV stations on the air.
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I guess that I am confused about something. WISE states that they are the first to broadcast in HD. From what I can tell they don't have that completely right. My image is cropped and from what I have read everyone else's is. But the picture that I am getting does look good, but I'm not sure if it is 1080 or what. If anyone knows please fill me in. Plus won't all of the stations that switching to digital need to broadcast on at least two sub channels if they are running 1080 like PBS currently does? I'm saying this because I believe that they will have to support standard and hd digital signals until the standard def tv's are gone. So I would assume that all of the new channels that have switched over recently are only running a standard digital broadcast. If some one out there has any info please let me know. Right now from what I can tell PBS is the only true HD channel available in fort wayne.
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Goldrich, I ended up on the WANE mailing list for HDTV. The change to 31 is a done deal, they are waiting for a construction permit from the FCC so they can build the new station.
AS of Tuesday Wpta has the new antenna in place at the top of the tower and the workers are currently putting up new wave guide to the antenna. Wise has the new antenna at the station but it is on the ground waiting for the tower crew to do its magic. Again Fox dt-36 is 200ft. off the ground with 100 watts running to the side mounted antenna. The only thing we can do is be patient .
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Just got my antenna installed today from Starlight. They put up an 8Bow in my attic, I'll let you know if I can get anything tonight!
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Ugh, anyone know if 19 is broadcasting tonight. I'm sure they are, but this new antenna didn't do much. I'm sure I need an amplifier, the tech thought my multiswitch would act as one.
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