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Old 14-Aug-2020, 9:20 PM   #1
Bobert
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I've looked for an answer, but...

New at posting here, not new at radio. For starters, I've got a Channelmaster CM-2020 ant with CM-7777HD preamp at 20 feet, running through less than 100' feet new, decent coax. I'm trying to receive WXEL (RF CH 27 at my location on the N shore of Lake Okeechobee, FL. It rarely comes in, usually at night. Please see below link, then the link within to WXEL file. I can receive VHF HI and UHF stations at similar distance running lower power, thus am puzzled why WXEL is such a hard catch. FL is a relatively flat state, so I don't think terrain should be an issue.

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d9038c9988bef42[/URL]

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Old 15-Aug-2020, 2:34 AM   #2
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I'm trying to receive WXEL (RF CH 27 at my location on the N shore of Lake Okeechobee, FL. It rarely comes in, usually at night. Please see below link, then the link within to WXEL file.

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d9038c9988bef42[/URL]

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Hello, Bob; welcome to the forum.

This is an active link to your report:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...9038c9988bef42

TVFool reports are no longer very accurate because they use a database with many errors. Please do a signal report at rabbitears.info for your location:
https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php

WXEL sold its license in the FCC Repack. It is now a guest (G) on the WPBT host transmitter (H) which is 97 miles away in Miami.
https://www.rabbitears.info/market.p...&callsign=WXEL

https://www.rabbitears.info/repackch...=&lss=&status=

https://www.rabbitears.info/market.p...&callsign=WPBT

Here is a rabbitears.info report for the center of Okeechobee at the CVS Drug Store at Parrott Ave and Park St:
https://www.rabbitears.info/searchma...tudy_id=135521

It looks like PBS is hard to get at your location. W31DC on real channel 31 is a translator for WPBT:
https://www.rabbitears.info/market.p...167891#station

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