steveg
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Can anyone help me out — prior to the “switch,” I was receiving KFOR digital very well, KOCO decently, KWTV good, OETA good, and KOKH good. I am using a small radio shack outdoor UHF/VHF antenna, mounted in the attic.
Since sometime within the last 6-8 weeks, I have stopped receiving the KOCO and KWTV broadcasts completely. I get ZERO signal. I still get very good signal from KFOR. Does anyone know exactly what has happened? FYI, I live in southeast Norman, on the west side of Lake Thunderbird, about 5 miles east of OU campus.
Also, as a side note — if I attach the antenna wire directly to my Samsung HDTV, I receive KFOR great (as I noted). However, if I run the antenna wire through my DirecTV HR20 receiver’s off-air antenna input, I cannot get KFOR to show up (zero signal). This used to work just fine. I was able to get KFOR 4-1 (and all the other stations as well) through my DirecTV receiver before (using the off-air antenna), but not now.
Finally, I’m also having trouble trying to tune these stations, since I did a “re-scan” for channels. Since then, and since I’m not getting any signal on channels 5-1 and 9-1, my TV won’t even store those channels so that I can at least fiddle with tweaking the antenna orientation. With no signal coming in, the TV won’t even let me add the channels. There seems to be no way to manually add a channel that has no signal.
Can anyone help with any, or all, of these issues?
Thanks,
Steve G.
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rickster
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According to the FCC data base Both 5-1 and 9-1 are only running~~~50KW Effective Radiated power, since DTV does not require what analog needs. 4-1 is running 790KW. Are you having trouble with the DirecTV box or your DTV or both ??? I’m at highway 9 and SE 48th, about 4 miles East of OU and get 4,5 & 9 DTV fine on a small Radio Shack VHF/UHF antenna in the atic on my DirecTV HR20 box, now that I got a replacement. My old HR20 had serious issues, including OTA dropouts, screeching fan and running HOT, to name a few. Some of the new DTVs and converter boxes will accept a direct channel entry, but the HR20 requires a channel scan to get the DTV channel maping. I get 4-1 & 9-1 on the kitchen DTV with a small UHF loop sitting on the bar !!! And 9-1 is on CH9 VHF, 4-1 is on CH27 UHF. Unfortunately I do not get 5-1, which is on VHF CH7, with the small loop.
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rickster
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http://www.pldepot.com/detail.aspx?ID=154&gclid=CK7A59mKnpoCFQa-sgodOAXV8w
Check out this signal strength meter. Another thought—–if you put connectors on the RG6 coax something could be amiss there.
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Dennis Whiteman
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I do think something is going on here. See my post on the front page…
KOCO-DT Update
Since KOCO went full power with their digital signal in June of 2003, this is worst reception I’ve ever received for that station. Problems with channel 9 are to be expected since they’ve switched back to VHF for transmission, but KOCO-DT was fairly reliable in the past.
You can tell that OETA’s signal is less stellar than before because an occasional stutter, but it mostly works fine and is more reliable than the other two VHF digital stations. All the UHF stations come in fine…
Dennis
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