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Old 30-Jul-2016, 12:05 AM   #19
rabbit73
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I am wondering... Do you have any way to show an angle of what 4 degrees (or 5 or 10 or 20 etc...) aimed from my location to Milwaukee or Chicago transmitters would look like? Now that's a challenge!
No, I think I have failed that challenge.

This is the terrain profile that TV Fool shows for WMLW:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...ALLTV%26n%3d36

I don't know why TV Fool calls it CBS, when it isn't:
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.ph...&callsign=wmlw

Here is a terrain profile that I did using different software. You can see how the signal grazes the terrain just before it gets to your location. This profile and the tvfool report do not take into consideration trees or buildings, so your antenna height is important to clear them.



Here is another profile that I did, but I couldn't figure out how to add the antenna heights at each end like I did for the above profile, so it isn't much help.



Maybe this helps:

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