A lot of people are whining about the "crappy" signal being put out by WHNE.
The signal isn't crappy, your antennas are obviously crappy at getting low VHF. Once the pandemic stops, get out there and get a good low VHF antenna. I feel like some people reading this are going to disregard my advice and they're not going to wait until the pandemic is over, and they clearly have the wrong priorities. Even ordering online is dangerous, people!
You don't necessarily need an outdoor antenna, rabbit ears, facing Oak Park, fully extended, and horizontal may work within 20 miles.
Stop blaming the station. Yes, it's true they waited a pretty long time to pick their post-repack channel, but what's done is done, and they're being extremely helpful on their Facebook, and people still get hostile towards them on there. Thankfully, the bashing is pretty much non existent on the buzzboard, but there is still some ignorance.
And the station has viewers all the way in Capac. It can be done at the edge of the 35 dBu contour. It can cover Chelsea, Flint, Essex ON, Brighton, Monroe, Lapeer, Marine City, and even NW Lenawee County. You need to take some personal responsibility and get the right antenna.
Then there's the people who try to control the station (even though they don't own it). People think that asking them to increase power or channel share with another station automatically means that they must have their request fulfilled. One of the most important things to realize in all of life, not just in this WHNE fiasco, is that you can't control the actions of others.
Fortunately, most people on the buzzboard who talk about the idea of channel sharing are just saying it as an idea, like an "alternate history" thing. Myself included. And honestly, that's fine, even kinda fun, to think about what could have been. But I've seen people on their Facebook asking them to increase power (some are asking them to even increase power above the full power low VHF limit, even above the limit for zone 2!
)You don't know what the station's intentions were. Maybe they intentionally picked low VHF because they just felt like it. Whatever the reason, it's totally legal, constitutional, and their's. The station doesn't owe you anything, this is a free society.
Although I do often question the constitutionality of the repack itself.
I'll try to give these complainers the benefit of the doubt. After all, the isolation does prevent people from getting new antennas. And being lonely like this can make people go insane. But now that you've read this, I hope you can put things in perspective.
