WMYD 20.1 gave up the ghost

[senpaisai]

Yeah, you're right. Sad thing is when I lived with my mother just passed the county fairgrounds, I had built my own antenna out of the shell of a long commercial florescent light fixture we had in the kitchen. It just upped and died one day, so while she went to Lowe's to buy a new one, I removed it from the kitchen ceiling, gut and trash all the electrical components and took into my part of the house. Using a 10 foot section of RG4, I bolted the silver outside wire to the fixture and soldered a copper fractal to the inner copper wire, screwed the other end into a old school balancer, and screwed the balancer into a 75ohm adapter that hooked directly to the TV. No amps at all. That thing was SICK! All I had to do was lean it vertically against something at ground level and it pulled everything in. The fixture was pretty much functioning as both a dipole and a reflector pumping UHF signal into that fractal. Insane reception, and this was in a part of the house that was an addition the landlord built in the 1960s ... out of cinderblock! I freakin' MISS that homebrew antenna!

[innate-in-you]

It's bizarre you can get WTVG but not WTOL. Both are VHF-hi signals, as each broadcasts on its respective PSIP channel. WTOL cranks out a little more power than WTVG and its transmitting antenna is higher, too.

I would suggest adjusting your antenna or purchasing a new antenna and then rescanning.

Numerous stations were doing test broadcasts with ATSC 1.0 signals before the last repack, btw. Any TV more than a couple years old is very unlikely to have ATSC 3.0 reception capability. Most new sets still lack it.

My antenna is in the bedroom sitting on top of a dresser with 3 amplifiers on it. It's an Ollie's POS I've had for years! I'm on the 2nd floor of 3 floor apartment complex with east facing windows, so I'm lucky to get anything. But I get the most channels by pointing it between Ann Arbor and Southfield, and if I want WTOL and WJBK bad enough, I have to move the antenna into the living room and point it due north straight down the hallway, but I'll lose the other Detroit stations in the process.

I used to live on the 3rd floor here. Corner apartment with a west facing window. Got everything between Detroit, Windsor, and Toledo. Oh, and I got a Ryzen 3600 rig on a desk just 10 feet away from the TV in front of the east facing window. Once I sit down, turn on the wireless mouse, and wake it up, the TV loses all OTA signal from the interference. It's probably why I got the 41 channels the other night - it was the first time I had shut the rig down completely since building it in September!

I think WTOL's transmitter is in Point Place and a bit farther out than WTVG'S ...

WTOL TX is about 2 or 3 miles SE of WTVG TX.

The easternmost Toledo area TX is WNWO, atop the tallest structure in the whole state.