Please help me recover our favorite signal!

[MrsQ]

I had hoped I had resolved our reception ordeal, but this is one mystical signal, i must say! Now i only hope somebody please bears with me for yet another step of the way...: We recovered the signal for our favorite tv-station, the FOX network received here as channel 38.1, during local programming and the picture and sound worked as perfectly as the other channels running through the HDMI of our digital magnavox vcr. But how bizarre is it that exclusively upon primetime programming, we LOSE ALL SOUND for this signal ONLY! The picture remains perfect as it does in all other channels, which all still have sound. So, we run the signal through the tv(samsung lcd) instead of the vcr to hear sound on fox38.1, but suffer a choppy ifn't outright frozen image as a result. For now we're making do as i'm pretty sure our problem has to be virtually UNheard of on this planet in this era but, just in case there's the scantest chance of someone who can so much as speculate our matter, here again's our tvfool report link as well: http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d8d1792258d2877

Thank you so much for taking the time to try easing my distress over losing our favorite signal! Our antenna's coaxial extends west from our tv, which's mounted against our east wall toward the south corner, and the scanner paused on it the longest with it extended flat as far west as it'd reach. So with it directed east&west, i shifted and reshifted it slightly side to side from north to south until suddenly my final scan snatched it up! Now that our tv registers the signal, it'll only be a matter of adjusting the antenna from here on out. The picture displayed very choppily until reconnecting it back through our digital vcr again--go figure! (We also may be contending with this tremendously tall tree outside of our south corner wall. Our only window in the room is just west of that tree, along our south wall just past the extent our antenna reaches.) My apologies should i fail to convey myself clearer... Thanks again to those who came to my aid. You provided me with much-needed encouragement to pull through...
#1tvfool-fan,
MrsQ
After trying just about every basic antenna in the market, an RCA digital flat antenna detected all free channels for us(pbs; cbs; abc; nbc; and fox--38.1, our favorite, which was the only channel requiring the antenna's amplifier). We had it connected through our old vcr(sony) into our samsung flatscreen. Then we connected it through our digital vcr(magnavox) and at first still received fox but for only a few hours at best before losing it altogether forevermore. We were under a snowstorm so didn't initially sweat over it, but afterwards reconnected the antenna through the ol' vcr to no avail and then directly through the tv with no such luck neither. Strangely, our samsung had shown us it still detected a fairly strong signal so we rescanned for it only to lose its last remnants for once and for all. It simply pauses on the channel(38) during the scan yet refuses to pick it up! Since we cannot manually enter a digital channel into our digital television, we cannot even test its signal strength furthermore. Meanwhile, it detects all our other channels with or without the amplifier, no matter the direction nor position of the antenna. Can anyone make sense of this? PLEASE DOES SOMEBODY HAVE AN EASY ANSWER TO SUCH A DARNED DILEMMA!?! We do believe we've found the direction and position where it still receives the strongest signal from fox 38.1. Here's our most accurate tvfool report link: http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d8d1792258d2877
Any assistance you can offer us is immensely appreciated!!

[Dave Loudin]

Hmmm. First off, we need a more accurate placement of your receive location. Use this (http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=90) method to generate the report by first entering your complete address (that will not show on the report.) On the resulting page, ensure that the receive location icon is pointing to the right spot. The map is a Google map, so you can zoom in as needed to get this right. Drag the icon to the right place as needed. Finish by clicking the "make radar plot" button.

Since you are apparently very close to the transmitters, I would have to guess that something about the path to that transmitter has changed, either eliminating helpful multipath or starting destructive multipath. I'll not speculate further until you post a new report.

[MrsQ]

After trying just about every basic antenna in the market, an RCA digital flat antenna detected all free channels for us(pbs; cbs; abc; nbc; and fox--38.1, our favorite, which was the only channel requiring the antenna's amplifier). We had it connected through our old vcr(sony) into our samsung flatscreen. Then we connected it through our digital vcr(magnavox) and at first still received fox but for only a few hours at best before losing it altogether forevermore. We were under a snowstorm so didn't initially sweat over it, but afterwards reconnected the antenna through the ol' vcr to no avail and then directly through the tv with no such luck neither. Strangely, our samsung had shown us it still detected a fairly strong signal so we rescanned for it only to lose its last remnants for once and for all. It simply pauses on the channel(38) during the scan yet refuses to pick it up! Since we cannot manually enter a digital channel into our digital television, we cannot even test its signal strength furthermore. Meanwhile, it detects all our other channels with or without the amplifier, no matter the direction nor position of the antenna. Can anyone make sense of this? PLEASE DOES SOMEBODY HAVE AN EASY ANSWER TO SUCH A DARNED DILEMMA!?! We do believe we've found the direction and position where it still receives the strongest signal from fox 38.1. Here's our most accurate tvfool report link: http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d8d1792258d2877
Any assistance you can offer us is immensely appreciated!!

[John Candle]

I agree with Dave Loudin , Post a radar report that is at the Tv location. Of situations when the question asker is all twisted up in knots the situation will be resolved One Step At A Time. Not 16 directions all at the same time.

[John Candle]

You could have put the new and accurate radar report in your other post , that way it would all be in the same post. The reason , cut's out a lot of confusion and confusion is already in effect here. No reason to pile on more.

[GroundUrMast]

Can you, or have you placed the antenna in a location where it will have a clear view to the east? A window with no metallic screen for example.

[mtownsend]

Merged both threads into one.

[John Candle]

Like herding cats.