Proper orientation of a directional TV receiving antenna will ensure optimal reliability. It's hard to navigate various menus to find any DTV signal indicator, and then it's some kind of "signal quality" meter, that can be misleading. You are best off finding the azimuth to the station or stations, ...

WDEO's Proof Of Performance Radials show that the signal is much weaker than that map suggests, except in a few directions (toward Downriver Radio TL and DA Array areas). It's online on the WMVP Daytime Application. Keep in mind that the whole WDEO area around the towers shows 8 mS/m on the M-3 Map,...

Any way you cut it,, Outdoor>Attic>Indoor 6 Feet Above Ground Level. Preamps are noisy, and don't give you gain like noise free gain from antenna placement and gain.

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Anyone know if the 8 Bay Bow Tie is designed to work at VHF-High and How well? I know the Finco Bedspring antenna was supposed to work on UHF with a slight modification. I"m thinking that the two 4 Bays may be functioning as one half of a full or near 1/2 wave at High VHF. This would probably work b...

WSWM/WFMK 99.1 was the first station in the Mid States FM network, and put WQDC 99.7, WGMZ 107.9, WABX 99.5, and WMAX AM 1480 FM 101.3 on the air in the 1960s. After Mid States/Panax began divesting, Bob Liggett bought WSWM and made it WFMK. He later acquired stations in the same markets Mid States ...

These options are not well explained on lists generated by Google and Amazon. Some rotate. Some may not have preamps. But the antennas are identical. I wonder why they have the VHF High Dipole if they don't have VHF in the European Models. Just a one size fits all and retrofit options?

Doing some statistical analysis, there is another limitation. The 1960s should have 120 of the Top 600 from a statistical standpoint, The 1960s are seen as the Golden Age of Popular Music, and yet there are many fewer than even the 90 which the text sequence "196" reveals. This is clearly because of...

The design you mention IS apparently identical to the antenna next door, but is apparently marketed under several different brand names. The rotator, though welcomed from a technical standpoint, looks a little wimpy. Cornell Dubelier might have come up with a longer lasting, tougher version. It does...

Never saw this list before. Billboard All Time Top 600 1958-2018. Like most charts, there are some criticisms. Like overreliance on the number of weeks at #1 in Billboard's lists, and not recognizing that a lot of these statistics are related to the number of releases and charted tracks in given yea...

Yes, light "pollution", which is basically city lights. Finally figured it out when I spotted the "delta" of Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland. They are slightly separated from Flint, Pontiac, Ann Arbor, and Toledo, which are continuous with Detroit. You see Cleveland, Lansing, Toronto, Grand Rapids, a...

So our new hobby is deep sea diving, after watching Lloyd Bridges on late night reruns on an X.33 sub channel in 240 line monochrome resolution?

Not a weather map. Not a signal map. Not a cell phone related map. It IS a contour map of sorts.

We were given the link at a recent presentation at a local library. It was supposed to aid us in pursuing a new hobby.

My neighbor has an amplified antenna on his roof with a red light. I just noticed it tonight. I can't see it well, but it has a driven folded dipole for High VHF, a small UHF parabolic reflector, and several UHF directors that I can see in the dark. Never saw one with a light before. I'll look at it...

CFCO translator on 92.9 loud and clear in Rochester, Michigan. What receiver and antenna are you using? I used to hear it, when it was 50 watts, on a MR-80 with a 10 element Archer FM-10. Before IBOC on WDRQ , and the Grand Ledge station on the Olds Tower, WLMI as I recall, CFCO-1-FM, WDRQ moved to...

I met Mickey Golden about the same time that I met Jim Harper. They seemed surprisingly different from each other.