NEW SCOTLAND — A new television antenna has been placed on the Helderberg escarpment at one of the highest points in Albany County.

The station, WYBN Channel 14, decided to seek a location closer to the city of Albany after it lost its lease at Windham Ski Resort in Greene County, said Dan Viles, 71, the owner and general manager of the company. The antenna was mounted on a pre-existing tower in late August and started broadcasting the evening of Sept. 7.

WYBN chose to lease space on a tower located about 200 feet away from the highest point in the county, Viles said, marked with an emblem by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey at 1,938 feet.

Actually, according to the United States Geological Survey, Henry Hill in the town of Berne is a couple of hundred feet higher.

The antenna is on a tower off of Pinnacle Road in New Scotland, alongside towers for other stations.

WYBN transmits signals using circular polarization — a spiral signal that allows broadcast on both horizontal and vertical planes from one transmitter, said Viles. Most stations transmit either only horizontally — as WYBN did at its Windham location — or horizontally and vertically but on two separate transmitters, said Viles.

Viles hopes that his station can appeal to people using indoor antennas, such as those living in condominiums, nursing homes, or dorm rooms, because WYBN’s antenna is able to reach indoor antennas easily than other station’s, he said. This is due to a 1.75-degree decrease in the 90-degree tilt of the WYBN antenna that allows it to direct a signal slightly downward.

Viles said that the new location will offer a stronger signal to more central locations such as Albany, Greene, and Columbia counties, rather than “mountain-top towns” such as in Fulton or Schoharie counties or in Vermont. He said it is more likely to reach customers in lowland areas.

“So I won’t be receivable at Lake George like I probably was from Windham,” he told The Enterprise in late July. “And I might not get any more phone calls from Vermont, but I’m picking up thousands of people in the Capital District by beam-tilting it down.”

The accessibility to the station has been better than Viles had expected in July. Viles told The Enterprise this week that he has heard from people in Fulton and Montgomery counties and western Massachusetts who have access.

But he said that his company is not “abandoning the Catskills.” The WYBN station is still based in Windham, he said.

The company is owned together by Viles and his wife, Ine; their son Jeremy is a technician and salesman for WYBN. His son also helps write advertisements that are broadcast on the station, which Viles then copyrights before sending them to a friend to produce over, he said.

WYBN broadcasts eight different networks, including France 24, which offers international news; Rev’n, which has shows about cars and trucks; and retro television stations like This TV and Retro TV. Viles said the different networks offer a variety of interests that connect different demographics, but don’t overlap.

“We’re quirky, we’re very responsive, we’re innovative, and we think outside of the box all the time,” Viles said, of WYBN’s chosen lineup.