TE power spectra for high‐ and low‐﹩l﹩ ranges for the region outside the P06 mask in EE and TT. Left: At low ﹩l﹩ we use the QV combination for polarization with full N⁻¹ weighting, and for temperature we use the V band with uniform weighting. The black data points correspond to spectrum made with the KD3Pol cleaned polarization maps; the blue correspond to the same spectrum but without cleaning (the ﹩l=2﹩ point is at ﹩17.8\pm 3.4﹩ μK), and the brown are from Kogut et al. (2003). The black dashed line is the best‐fit model to all the WMAP data. For the first‐year data, ﹩\chi ^{2}=35.3﹩ for ﹩l=2{\mbox{--}} 10﹩ with a corresponding ﹩\mathrm{PTE}\,\approx 0﹩. For the 3 year data, ﹩\chi ^{2}=9.4﹩ for ﹩l=2{\mbox{--}} 10﹩ evaluated relative to a null signal. The corresponding PTE is 0.4. When the 3 year data are evaluated with respect to the best‐fit model, ﹩\chi ^{2}=5.4﹩ with a corresponding ﹩\mathrm{PTE}\,=0.79﹩. We find that the data sets are consistent with each other and that the 3 year data prefer the ﹩\tau =0.09﹩ model over the null signal at the 2 σ (﹩\Delta \chi ^{2}=4﹩) level. However, the 3 year data are also consistent with a null signal. Right: The black data points show the 3 year TE spectrum. This was made using the V band for temperature and the QV combination for the E mode of polarization. The blue data points are from Kogut et al. (2003). The smooth dashed curve is the best‐fit model to the WMAP data. An additional zero crossing near ﹩l=400﹩ is now present.