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WKBD 50

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mmg
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WKBD 50

Post by mmg » Sat Nov 17, 2018 1:59 pm

Signal seems awfully low today. Anybody else having trouble?


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Re: WKBD 50

Post by mtburb » Sat Nov 17, 2018 6:56 pm

No problems in Wyandotte.


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Re: WKBD 50

Post by windsor » Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:32 pm

I also had no signal for WKBD mid aft on Sat.


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Re: WKBD 50

Post by SolarMax » Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:54 pm

There are workers on their tower, so there will be periodic power reductions or cutoffs over the next few days.



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Re: WKBD 50

Post by Deleted User 14803 » Mon Nov 19, 2018 1:54 pm

50’s signal always sucked in Shelby Township I Hope 🤞 that when the repack happens they will be better I only watch .2 and sometimes.3 forget the CW teen network.Maybe they will add .4 for Decades and that’s why they are doing the work.



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Re: WKBD 50

Post by innate-in-you » Mon Nov 19, 2018 6:44 pm

Adding a subchannel shouldn't require any tower work. The still transmit only one signal, only it is divided into several video and audio streams sent out in sequence. When you watch 50.4, your receiver picks out only the bytes that carry the .4 channel picture and sound, and displays them.



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Re: WKBD 50

Post by innate-in-you » Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:00 am

Just checked WKBD. It seems they've been off at least 12 hours.

Others reported a brief outage over the weekend.

One thing I did not know was that WDWO was on that candleabra. I still thought they were at the Capitol Rd site (near 103.5's TL)

I wonder what they're working on. No Detroit market station is repacking until Phase 3, with most repacking on Phase 8.



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Re: WKBD 50

Post by MWmetalhead » Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:30 am

Both WDWO and WPXD (ion channel 31) use the WKBD site.

WDEO has a construction permit to put an FM Translator antenna on the tower structure. I doubt, though, that a low power FM antenna install less than two-thirds of the way up the structure would cause a need for WKBD to power down for multiple days.



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Re: WKBD 50

Post by szmigiel » Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:09 pm

Nearly 24 hours of being off the air, they finally made an announcement on their webpage and facebook. But no ETA on when they will be back on the air.



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Re: WKBD 50

Post by videocollectore » Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:09 pm

I was told by WKBD that they are installing a new antenna and that they would be off the air periodically for the next 2 weeks.



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Re: WKBD 50

Post by szmigiel » Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:00 pm

Back up now, guess they are prepping for the Repack in April



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Re: WKBD 50

Post by innate-in-you » Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:10 pm

My guess is that they will be broadcasting in the evenings when viewership is higher and noone will want to work 1000' in the air in the cold and dark.

Sad thing is, the interruption is not necessary. They also own WWJ-TV 62(44).
They could have used WWJ-TV to transmit a temporary subchannel on physical 44.5, which would broadcast WKBD with PSIP as channel 50.1 (a lot of people are unaware that one transmitter can have more than one .1 channel. In fact, the spectrum auction depends on it. Many stations sold their RF bandwidth in the auction, but will be operating with a shared channel as a guest, complete with their original channel mumber and must-carry/retransmission consent privileges).



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