It is W40BO, now moved to RF ch 26 due to the repack, but still transmitting from the FM128 tower. The signal is quite good considering they are using only 12 KW. It is Daystar-owned and carrying Daystar programs, but doesn't appear to be a translator.
| 08/23/1989 | W33AV | |
| 09/01/1995 | WRAP-LP | |
| 11/07/1996 | W33AV | |
| W54CN | ||
| 10/28/1999 | W40BO | |
| 04/18/2018 | W40BO-D | |
| W40BO-D | ||
| 06/23/2021 | W26EU-D |
It happened on a night that there were severe thunderstorms, which might have been the cause. I had noticed it when stepping through the channels between 38 and 44. Checking more closely a few days later, both subchannels were there, but with no video or audio, but they could have been completely off the air at least part of the time.
I spoke too soon, just scanned and 40.1 and 40.2 are back on today after a couple of weeks off.
WJAR is on RF 25 and WLNE is on RF 24, so I don't think these new low power channels would cut into the signal because they are on different RF channels.
There is one likely overlap issue - use of the same virtual channel number as WJAR ch 10. Right now if they are actually on the air from the pre-move location, they are sending the signal mostly northwest to NH from the Stow, MA area and that should not be a problem. However the signal map shows the new signal will reach into the Providence market, so they will probably have to use another virtual number.
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I still may no longer receive WJAR or WLNE though, because when my set picks up two signals using the same virtual channel in a scan, it assigns the virtual channel to the one on the higher RF channel because it “finds” it later in the scan, superseding the one it “found” earlier.
In my initial comment I forgot about the PSIP channel issue, so thank you to Channel 99 and Eli for pointing that out. It will likely cause issues in the signal coverage areas of WLNE and WJAR if these new stations are allowed to PSIP on channel 6 and 10. And the coverage area maps show that the signal of these new stations could reach into the north and east suburbs of Providence too. I remember that a few years ago when what is now WWJE-TV 50 started sharing spectrum with WUNI-TV 66 and started transmitting from Hudson, MA, some of my TV's and converter boxes could not decode the signal on PSIP ch 50 because WRIW-CD had its PSIP channel also on 50. My TV's could decode WRIW and not WWJE; a few months later WRIW-CD changed its PSIP to ch 51, and since then I can receive both channels.
W06DH-D has changed call letters to WVCC-LD.
