Right now, it says that the resolution on 50.5 is 1080i, making WKBD the second television station in the market to have dual 1080i's after Detroit Public TV (56). If something is going to be upgraded, I would expect it to be Comet. Although Nosey might be added somewhere, why broadcast it in HD?

You're right. I always thought that two 1080i's wouldn't work over ATSC 1.0

My TV set indicates that channel 50.5 is also in 1080i. Right now, there is a test pattern that reads CBS TV DETROIT on it.

The CRTC does not allow two TV broadcasts to use 720p and share a single 6 MHz bandwidth. That means Omni.1 and Omni.2
are on different channels in Toronto, Ottawa, and London. The same goes for CBC English and the French language service.

The WADL signal could be fixed rather quickly. Detroit Public TV is 1080i which means they could use channel sharing with WADL if they are willing to broadcast with 720p. If you watch FOX 2 over the ATSC 3.0 transmission, you can get it with a UHF antenna. It also gets out to the west without too mu...

It will take some time to get through all of this, but this show might cover the demise of the Top 40 era on AM 1270, along with the WXYZ-FM phases over at 101 FM. If you can find old copies of the Free Press and the Detroit News online, it might also be mentioned there. https://mcrfb.com/?page_id=286

It's true that the radios with it right now do not have SSB. One of the receivers is at a low wholesale price however. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806073140794.html?src=google&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=272-267-0231&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&gclsrc=aw.ds&albagn=888888&ds_...

I think the timeline for 101.1 FM went like this: 1948-1958: Both AM 1270 and 101 FM simulcasted ABC network variety programming. They were WXYZ radio. 1958-1966: The Top 40 phase was on both the AM & FM. They were known as Channel 1270. 1966-1967: The FCC simulcast law came into effect. WXYZ-FM had...

The chip is known as the NXP TEF6686. It sounds like it is even better than the DSP circuit that the current Sangean, Eton/Grundig, and CCrane radios use right now. https://radiojayallen.com/qodosen-sr-286-am-fm-sw-high-performance-portable/ https://swling.com/blog/2022/12/ivan-checks-out-the-new-te...

The auto makers had to have known about this.

https://www.gm.ca/en/home/company/canad ... round.html

Remember how Adell wanted to put WFDF on FM?

WADL TV is 39 miles away from that location, and it is difficult to receive. WDIV is the one that tends to be the first one to come in, due to a taller broadcast tower. The two bridges between the U.S/Canada border are southwest of that location, so that might not help.

I was trying to get stable TV reception from the inside of an apartment building that is only 0.10 from another building that has those cell phone antennas on the roof. They came in off and on. I was using an inexpensive amplified antenna. I am wondering if a passive antenna + an LTE filter would wo...

The nighttime interference on 580 is making their signal useless where I live tonight. I don't recall that being much of a problem in the past.

The clay soil in the township just to the south of Sarnia has high ground conductivity. 700 WLW from Cincinnati comes in during the daytime on a sensitive radio. Based on a map I saw it appears that 590 VOCM on the East Coast can be picked in SW Greenland if you are close enough to the salt water.

CFPL-FM in London had Progressive Rock starting at Midnight as early as 1972. That was the same year that 1570 CHLO had a similar format to what WRIF had at the time. https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-south-western/cfpl-fm/ https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/rad...