I tried to pick up WEDN Wednesday morning with no luck. First, at around 8:30am I had my Mitsubishi SR-HD5 DirecTV HDTV receiver re-scan for local channels and it didn't find WEDN-DT/45. Then I went to the signal level indicator on my receiver and it showed channel 45 at 100. I tried re-scanning again at about 11:45am and my receiver still couldn't find WEDN-DT/45 but the signal level still indicated 100. I left my receiver on the signal level display and saw it drop to 58 for a while and then to 0 just before noon, but I didn't watch the signal strength for very long.

I did another scan at 12:25pm yesterday (Thursday) but my receiver again was unable to locate 45-2 through 42-5. I left my receiver set on the Signal Strength display for Ch. 45 and behaved very oddly.The strength bounced all around from 0 to 100 and lots of places in between and it was only able to lock on to the signal every once in a while. I watched it for about 20 minutes and the signal locked for at most 5 seconds at a time, except for one time when it lasted about 10 seconds. When it did lock on to it the signal strength was 100.

For comparison, WTNH (digital Ch. 10) was at 58, with a occasional spike at 72, but that signal is far more stable than what I was seeing for Ch. 45.

I'm less than 10 miles away from the WEDN transmitter so I wouldn't expect to have any reception problems and WEDN says they are testing at full power so I have no idea as to what my problem might be.

On a related subject, here is a map that shows estimated coverage areas for the 4 CPTV stations based on info included in their original applications for digital channels.