Philco rescued from the Prop house.

[Robert Grant]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

How do you know about WEWS-TV (ABC channel 5) when you are over 1000 miles from Cleveland? <snio>.

LOL

I would say a few people saw WEWS from about 1000 miles, when they were on analog. 1000 miles is just about the right distance for sporadic-E skip, which does affect RF chanel 5.

At 100 miles, I have been too close to WEWS to see it directly by sporadic-E, but one night in 1983, I was seeing a channel 3 transmitter in Saskatchewan by Es. They were a station that was a repeater for a channel 5 station up there, but, that late at night, their channel 5 was off the air. So what was the channel 3 station transmitting? WEWS, which IT was getting by Es!


Another LOL: Before "Mad Men" came out, I never knew that all television viewing in the 1960s was by sporadic-E!