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Old 9-Mar-2011, 3:18 PM   #4
mtownsend
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Originally Posted by justrussell View Post
if i haven't ran auto scan, and point toward Indy and manually enter "8" or "8-1", nothing.... run autoscan and there it is.
Have you tried tuning to channel 9? Since WISH-TV is really broadcasting on RF channel 9, the TV might detect the signal and decode it, subsequently re-mapping it to channel 8.1 due to the virtual channel encoding.

There's nothing physically on channel 8, so I'm not surprised that tuning to channel 8 (or 8.0 on some TVs) yields nothing. However, in most of the TVs I've come across, if you tune to a channel where there is a real signal present (like 9 in this case), it does lock on to the signal, decode it, and add it to the channel map.

This might not work on all TVs, but it's worth a shot.
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