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Old 28-Sep-2011, 2:10 AM   #59
Turkaloo
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OK, here is the latest. I am very persistent trying to get things to work almost to the point of being obsessed with projects I do.
I couldnt give up on the U8000 so I yanked it back out of the box and stared at it for 5 minutes or so. I grabbed a 10 foot coax from the garage and connected it to the same TV I have been using. I put the antenna out on the porch and connected the cable. I rescanned for channels.......I got 14 digital and one 'Air' channel (whatever that is) with the antenna sitting at gound level in a chair at what I guessed to be about 130 degrees.
I will pull the outdoor cable run I was using from the attic and do the same test where the antenna is and rescan again. Im thinking I will most likely get between 4 and 6 channels.
With all of that said, I will probably do what John C recommended to do in the first place and point the U8000 to the North (347 degrees) and be able to pull channels from the back as well (after I replace the cable and test it FIRST)
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