That profile of the escarpment spells out exactly my situation, which explains why my son can pick up this station better than me and he has "almost" the same OTA set-up as me but he's about 8 blocks north east of me. Truthfully after your previous post to this one, I did some more research on my own and your graph of the escarpment says it all.
I thought I might be in the Fresnel zone to pick up CHCJ and probably am, hence is why my reception is spotty. Maybe add 200 feet worth of tower
and life would be good.
My real challenge is climbing that tower. I'm almost 68 and while I have a waist belt and a body belt (used together) I'm still not as young as I used to be. As silly as it might sound, I wonder about what might be involved with respect to azimuth in order to capture RF within the Fresnel zone. (as you suggested) If you think that might work, what degree of tilt would you suggest?
One thing in my favor is the dreaded winter that I hate so much. But, when the leaves start falling it could reduce natural attenuation (yes, no?)
Plus, in the cold, certain things, wires and RF can become super conductors and might enhance my cause.
I remember last year I borrowed a friend's MFJ antenna analyzer and one would think I would write down the resonant frequency of my Yagi.(guess what Thought did?)
I found that virtual channel 35.1 is 596 to 602 MHz and I don't recall the Yagi's center frequency. I might borrow it again and try from my desk. Hopefully the coax won't affect it's accuracy, as I'm sure it might.
This transmitter that I am trying to capture is a repeater transmitter from a station further up north CKVR on one of our many Canadian networks CTV. Their news base often reports the more northern news and other events. It's near that area where we go camping, traveling and peace of mind turf. Even their local advertising enlighten our sprits with boating and RV stuff.
You suggested CITS as being too strong and an overload. The structure of their program is religious and not my thing (no disrespect to others)
I'd be happy to trap that out entirely. I checked the signal level this morning and while 36.1 is not full scale it's up there at 82% (TV's own meter)
36.1 is 602 to 608 MHz. close enough?
Yes, anything you have to offer for my education and learning is an absolute asset. For me and everyone.
I'm going by this Digital Television Physical Channel Frequencies
http://www.hmtech.info/av/dtv-channels.php These channel assignments are at the very bottom of the chart.
Sorry, my copy and paste below didn't turn out the way I expected.
Virtual channel left most number(s). SPACE next 2 numbers Space next 2 numbers are the lower and upper frequencies for each channel
Channel
Lower
bound
MHz
Upper
bound
MHz
1 44 50
2 54 60
3 60 66
4 66 72
5 76 82
6 82 88
7 174 180
8 180 186
9 186 192
10 192 198
11 198 204
12 204 210
13 210 216
14 470 476
15 476 482
16 482 488
17 488 494
18 494 500
19 500 506
20 506 512
21 512 518
22 518 524
23 524 530
24 530 536
25 536 542
26 542 548
27 548 554
28 554 560
29 560 566
30 566 572
31 572 578
32 578 584
33 584 590
34 590 596
35 596 602
36 602 608
37 608 614
38 614 620
39 620 626
40 626 632
41 632 638
42 638 644
43 644 650
44 650 656
45 656 662
46 662 668
47 668 674
48 674 680
49 680 686
50 686 692
51 692 698