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Old 9-Mar-2011, 11:34 AM   #1
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Rotator w/ TV tuner help

Hello all, great board.

I've installed a new antenna with rotator set up over the last week. It's a pretty slick setup. Yesterday, I finally had time to mess with the rotator and figure out how to use it. I'm about in the middle of Indianapolis, Louisville, and Cincinnati. I point the antenna toward Indy, and do the auto scan on TV and get a ton of channels. Then i point it toward Louisville do the auto scan and same thing. Here is my problem: when you do the autoscan for each position of the antenna, the tv gets rid of the channels found in the previous position. There is a manual entry area, but tv says this only works for analog. They're right, 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.

Do I need to buy some kind of tuner box? or what do I need? Someone else has to have had this problem too....

Oh, my TV is a Sylvania 42 inch plasma 6842THG

Thanks for any advice.
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Old 9-Mar-2011, 12:06 PM   #2
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Kudos to mtownsend for his solution below...

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Old 9-Mar-2011, 12:53 PM   #3
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Does the auto scan have a pause option? My Samsung LCD allows pausing during scanning & helps with adding in stations from different directions.

It would be nice to have a reference guide to compare how OTA friendly certain TV brands are. The most OTA friendly brand I have experienced would be Toshiba.
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Old 9-Mar-2011, 3:18 PM   #4
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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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Old 9-Mar-2011, 7:15 PM   #5
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Please post the tvfool radar report . http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=4 , Read and understand this about , Real Digital Tv Channels, Virtual Digital Tv Channels , Analog Tv Channels. . http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=695

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Old 10-Mar-2011, 11:01 AM   #6
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Wow! Thanks to all; I really appreciate it. mtownsend, you were right. I did the manual program of the "real" channel.... the tv would go to that channel, then redirect to the virtual digital channel!! this is really great..

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