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Heya STATMANMI--thanks for the comment. Yeah, I was just looking at the RabbitEars.info and noticed that even on the main WWTV VHF-9 channel they are only providing Dolby 2.0. That website has so much information I have to re-learn how to use it every time I visit it. Actually, for watching live ...

Perhaps my final update on the use of the Televes Hi-VHF Yagi antenna, as I will explain further below. For those who wished to see the gain of the antenna as a function of frequency, here is the graph: https://docs.televes.com/IFR04180001_0_34580.svg In regard the reception of VHF Channel 9 at 186 ...

For great details of how NBC is handling the audio portion of their 2026 Olympic Games from Milan broadcasts, watch this excellent presentation on youTube:

NBC OLYMPICS AUDIO
https://youtu.be/ZAJSaN8Z3Ik

MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 6:38 pmWDIV always came in much more cleanly using rabbit ears than WJBK.

The change at WDIV to circular polarization in c.1987 would likely have improved reception on rabbit-ear antenna.

They are still using ellipical polarization with their present ATS 1.0 digital signal.

I just happened to pull up google street view of the WDIV tower from Greenfield rd NB and you can actually see the crew on the tower working... That is very good investigating. I was out of town all during the transmission line replacement project, else I would have gone to the transmitter site and ...

Regarding the tower structure at WWJ-TV/WDIV: The 1,000-foot tower is a monster. It is a Blaw-Knox triangular section tower that is 14-feet on each face. There is an internal elevator that rises from about 80-feet to the 900-foot level. The vertical structural members of the tower are not tubular ...

I notice there are several threads concerning problems in reception of WDIV in the past few months. One possible cause is the switch at WDIV to their stand-by antenna for an extended length of time around August, September, and November 2025. WDIV transmits on Channel 32 (578 to 584-MHz). Their ...

UPDATE on Reception of CBET Although I have not mentioned this before, the principal reason for my interest in receiving CBET at my home is to permit me to watch Hockey Night in Canada all winter. The Televes Hi-VHF 7-element Yagi had been doing a find job of providing that capability during the ...

If anyone is actually seriously interested in a high-performance, well-designed, well-constructed, long-boom Yagi antenna for the 88 to 108-MHz FM broadcast band, you should look at this antenna InnovAntennas FM Broadcast 88-108 MHz OP-DES Yagi Antennas 18484-0110 https://www.dxengineering.com/parts ...

BEN ZONIA—you should buy that long boom 14-element Hi-VHF yagi, install it, and report on the signal strengths you are getting from CBET-9 in Windsor in a new thread you can start about that other antenna. Give readers all the details. In this thread I have been reporting on the Televes antenna. If y ...

To update the performance of the Televes Hi-VHF yagi for reception of CBET-9 in Windsor at my location in Bingham Farms, the return of cold air temperatures and loss of foliage on the trees has improved reception to the point where the indicated SNR is now typically 19 to 20 dB as given in the ...

Regarding Solid Signals: you can place an order over the telephone and pick-up your order at their facility in Novi, but only for products that they keep in stock at that location (and only if you can navigate through a maze of road closures to get there). Re the Televes Hi-VHF yogi, the "sale ...

I see that an outdoor antenna is not an option for this person. There are two aspects in play here. Federal regulations cover outdoor antennas for reception of television signals, and provide everyone with the option to use an outdoor antenna, including me. There are some limitations, which I will ...

I see that an outdoor antenna is not an option for this person. That is a major problem. Not only is there signal absorption from walls, but reflections off those walls that affect the pattern of the antenna. The antenna that is the TOPIC of this discussion is not blocked by any walls in the signal ...

...[CBET} they moved the TV tower WAY out West of the City, to beter [sic] serve the counties over there , across the river. If you are referring to CBET formerly CKLW, the antenna move was not to the West of Detroit or Windsor. The antenna location moved from downtown Windsor to the Southeast ...