: OTA: Lake Ontario Area DXing, Tropo, Odd Reception: 2011


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Jase88
2011-05-10, 08:29 PM
Same here in Kitchener. Though no WNGS.

majortom
2011-05-10, 08:53 PM
Same here in Kitchener. Though no WNGS.

Keep checking now & then. VHF looks pretty good here in Buf.
CKCO 13 from Kitchener is actually pretty clean, better than CFTO 9 & CHCH 11 tonite

bigcam406
2011-05-10, 11:07 PM
did a scan this morning around 10,picked up 29 stations(usually 13 is the norm)received the big 4 from rochester(nbc,abc,fox,cbs)and even received wsyr syracuse,which is a first.great day for scanning,thats for sure.:)

goforit
2011-05-11, 08:55 PM
Again, good tropo tonight- ION booming.

jerschmidt14
2011-05-11, 09:19 PM
Reception is great tonight with ion and wnyb. They were out all winter.

renns
2011-05-11, 09:38 PM
Same for me here just south of Kitchener. I just re-scanned, and I'm pulling in all the Buffalo channels high strength, and even WXXI from Rochester as well, mapped to 21.1 thru 21.3. I had WNGS a couple times last year, but no luck this year. I'll keep scanning, though!

jacrider
2011-05-11, 10:24 PM
In recent days, we have had poor reception of both 17-1 and 17-2. All other channels are fine. Anyone else with the same issue?

I'm at Yonge and Lawrence.

Thanks.

Jase88
2011-05-11, 11:26 PM
Buffalo and Rochester coming in strong tonight--including WNGS.

majortom
2011-05-11, 11:28 PM
Had the first visit of the season from Bowling Green, OH PBS WBGU today.

Jase88
2011-05-11, 11:29 PM
I caught Bowling Green a few weeks ago. I'd rotate that way right now, but I'm recording stuff from Buffalo.

CenturyBreak
2011-05-12, 07:12 PM
Yep, it's that time of the year with 'evil tropo' happening... even though it's not quite warm yet.

It's the usual result: I'm getting ION for a change, but that means losing Fox 29 in the evening. :rolleyes:

majortom
2011-05-12, 10:50 PM
This evening:
WROC, WXXI, WUHF Rochester,NY
WJET, WQLN, WFXP Erie, PA
Later on last nite added:
CITS-DT, OMNI1-DT, CBLFT-DT TO & Hamilton, pretty rare
and was surprised to see WWTI-DT Watertown,NY
I've only seen that one other time.

Stashed some TSReader Dumps in this thread (http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showpost.php?p=1261272&postcount=11)

Vuarra
2011-05-13, 07:23 AM
Yesterday afternoon I was getting a booming ION, but lost out on WYNO.

Not used to seeing that station in early afternoon.

goforit
2011-05-14, 09:47 AM
The OTA gods giveth and taketh away. All week conditions were very good, and my edge channels (WNYO, ION) were booming, but yesterday and today, the edge channels are gone; and WUTV (RF 14) has been MIA which is a very rare occurrence, and must be related to the onslaught of moisture and fluctuating temperatures. Any who, I would fiddle with the set-up (e.g., remove splitter) if something watchable was on (see HD sports), so no great loss...

jerschmidt14
2011-05-14, 03:52 PM
Must be bad weather over the lake. Lost pretty much everything. WNED is in and out. All TO ok.

Jase88
2011-05-14, 04:07 PM
Apparently areas near the lake are covered in fog. This could be the reason for weak stations...

HWP
2011-05-14, 05:21 PM
I'm glad you mentioned this. I've been thinking maybe it was my antenna. Usually I have rock-solid reception on everything. But with this thick fog (I'm in it), I'm missing NBC, CBS, ABC, MyTV, ION, and TCT. Very rare occurrance...seems to correspond to extremely foggy days.

recneps77
2011-05-14, 11:14 PM
Yup, horrible all night.
Only buff coming through are WNLO, WNED, WUTV (borderline)
The rest are sub 33% signal (>45% needed for lock)

:(

T.O.'s pretty solid.
Though this reminds me that I can tweak my antenna for the time until 31 Aug, now that I don't need to receive suntv :p
Might optimize some of the others and reduce events like this. Perhaps receive CHCH reliably.

jerschmidt14
2011-05-15, 03:19 PM
All US are back. Yippee :) Lots to watch now. Ion is out but that is normal for a cloudy day.

majortom
2011-05-22, 11:31 AM
Erie, PA (including WICU on VHF) and some Cleveland Last Nite.
Some TSReader dumps (https://www.wuala.com/whosurbud/Documents/TsReaderDumps/DX_May212011/?key=i2ZbjO3PQkQJ) .