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Old 4-Oct-2013, 2:16 PM   #1
smccue
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Join Date: Nov 2012
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Reception Conundrum

Hi All!

I recently moved to a new home and just got around to getting the antenna up. Prior to this, there was no antenna hookup at the new house, but we were still receiving quite a few channels (with the tv set to "cable)-so we left it as is. I didn't understand what was happening, but thought I'd avoid a trip to the roof to set things up since we were getting some sort of magical reception.

About a week ago we suddenly lost all our channels and I couldn't get them back. After getting the antenna set up once again, I find that I'm only getting a small pittance of channels compared to what I received at the old house. At any given time I'll receive about 5 workable channels (as opposed to about 40 at the old place), and they're not even the main network stations.

Here are the reports from my two residences-the first is from the old house (which forum users helped me get set up, thanks again!) and the second is from the new.

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...46ae426ce29016

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...46ae4abf7e83a5

I've got the antenna (http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=HD-7082P) on the roof pointed at about 73 degrees magnetic. It seems to me (in my very limited experience) that I should expect to have the same signal strength, and thus a similar number of channels as I did at the old house, but that's not the case.

Does anyone have any ideas what my problem might be? Troubleshooting tips? Thanks again for any input!
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