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New digital converter
New digital converter
My old digital converter gave up after a power outage recently. I got a 'new' one, from a resale store. It works good. But it doesn't pick up 12. After the scan, it recognizes that all of the 12 subchannels are there, but the signal is not strong enough for it to decode the signal. I tried moving the rabbit ears antenna in several orientations, but no luck. Anybody have any suggestions?
Re: New digital converter
Any Way you can get an outdoor antenna connected,?
SORRY managed to post same lines twice.
SORRY managed to post same lines twice.
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Re: New digital converter
Any Way you can get an outdoor antenna connected,?
Not one of those amplified UHF jobs that are so popular, recently, they will not help for Ch 12 !
Indoor Rabbit ears are only good when you are right in the middle of an urban area near the TV transmitting towers.
Not one of those amplified UHF jobs that are so popular, recently, they will not help for Ch 12 !
Indoor Rabbit ears are only good when you are right in the middle of an urban area near the TV transmitting towers.
Re: New digital converter
The RF sensitivity of the set-top converters (and receivers) varied a lot depending on maker.
The "Zinwell" ATSC box I got at Meijer back in '99 for the digital switchover is amazingly sensitive, can grab DTV signals with a short stub of wire in the F-connector. Other boxes and sets could barely decode even with a "good" wall panel or an outdoor antenna. An outdoor or attic antenna might make things better for Paul8539, or he might need to try a different converter (or, give it up and get a TV receiver made in the past decade or so )
My Zinwell box will not decode at one station's program multi streams (a religious/shopping -LD I don't care about). Good signal, but it just throws up a generic "not available" screen. I think along the way the station's PSIP coding was changed and the old converter can't deal with it.
The "Zinwell" ATSC box I got at Meijer back in '99 for the digital switchover is amazingly sensitive, can grab DTV signals with a short stub of wire in the F-connector. Other boxes and sets could barely decode even with a "good" wall panel or an outdoor antenna. An outdoor or attic antenna might make things better for Paul8539, or he might need to try a different converter (or, give it up and get a TV receiver made in the past decade or so )
My Zinwell box will not decode at one station's program multi streams (a religious/shopping -LD I don't care about). Good signal, but it just throws up a generic "not available" screen. I think along the way the station's PSIP coding was changed and the old converter can't deal with it.
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If your old converter got all the channels you want, why not look for the exact same model on eBay?
That would be a lot more straightforward than making antenna system modifications in a possibly-futile effort to get the new box to work.
That would be a lot more straightforward than making antenna system modifications in a possibly-futile effort to get the new box to work.
Re: New digital converter
MW:
Yes I am talking about WJRT. This place is in the Tri-Cities area, about 40 miles from the WJRT tower. I am getting 49 and 66 and their sub-channels good. The signal meter says that 12 is coming in between 0 and 15 signal strength.
When the roofers re-did my roof some years ago, they wrecked my antenna system. They pushed the leads down into the attic where I can't get at them. The roof antenna was tossed to the ground and smashed. They put the stump of the mast back up, but it got blown over in a windstorm. I had to get a new rotor and cable, but never got a new antenna.
I need to use what I have, which is rabbit ears on the back of the set, and a bow-tie clipped to one of the ears, and a second rabbit-ears/circle set-top gizmo that I paralleled in.
I got the 'new' converter at a re-sale store, just the converter box and remote. No instructions, no information, nothing else.
I had a Zenith 901 converter, hooked up to a 1992 Zenith TV. The TV still works good, I just need a converter that works good. I thought about getting a new TV that does not need the converter, but the cheapest that I could find was $40 at a pawn shop. Now that I am involuntarily de-employed, I don't have all that much money to spend.
Yes I am talking about WJRT. This place is in the Tri-Cities area, about 40 miles from the WJRT tower. I am getting 49 and 66 and their sub-channels good. The signal meter says that 12 is coming in between 0 and 15 signal strength.
When the roofers re-did my roof some years ago, they wrecked my antenna system. They pushed the leads down into the attic where I can't get at them. The roof antenna was tossed to the ground and smashed. They put the stump of the mast back up, but it got blown over in a windstorm. I had to get a new rotor and cable, but never got a new antenna.
I need to use what I have, which is rabbit ears on the back of the set, and a bow-tie clipped to one of the ears, and a second rabbit-ears/circle set-top gizmo that I paralleled in.
I got the 'new' converter at a re-sale store, just the converter box and remote. No instructions, no information, nothing else.
I had a Zenith 901 converter, hooked up to a 1992 Zenith TV. The TV still works good, I just need a converter that works good. I thought about getting a new TV that does not need the converter, but the cheapest that I could find was $40 at a pawn shop. Now that I am involuntarily de-employed, I don't have all that much money to spend.
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Instead of buying just a converter, you might also consider getting a DVR. There's a mediasonic one on Amazon for about $28. It picks up some channels that my TVs won't because of weak signals.
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I tried MW's suggestions. It seems that getting WJRT is dependent on the day and the weather. Sometimes I get nothing; sometimes it comes in fine; sometimes it pixelates.