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Old 3-Oct-2011, 4:28 AM   #1
alex
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Join Date: Oct 2011
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Frustrated in Portland, OR

Help!

Here's my report:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...60b586718be718

Just moved to a new house about a month ago, and have yet to get my TV signals coming in fully.

I have a home-made antenna I made at my last apartment from a video on YouTube....it actually worked surprisingly well.

It didn't work here at the new place, and I bought an antenna at ACE Hardware that was rated up to Red in the pie chart thingy. It's a ChannelMaster CM-4220MHD. I've got it set up in the attic, and I've angled it as close to compass 50 degrees that I can.

I can get everything except 8.1 (NBC) very well. 2.1 (ABC) is not 100% all the time, and 8.1 I can't get at all. This is strange to me from reading the report, because I can get 12.1 perfectly all the time, and it's in exactly the same direction as 8.1.

Anyway, I'm getting frustrated. Is it a crappy antenna? TVFool seems to indicate that a RED antenna would be fine, but AntennaWeb says I need a BLUE one for some channels (not 8.1, though, interestingly enough).

I just want it to work. And I want it to work all the time, if that's possible.

Thanks!

Alex
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