rbp111
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I have two analog converter boxes, one for the living room television and one for the bedroom television. I have two questions. First, when I operate the both tv's at the same time, the one in the bedroom does not catch the same amount of channels as the one in the lr. Why? Does the lr box "steal" some of the signal coming in?
More importantly, this past week I stayed at a park where I had previously received channels, not on the converter box. I set up, but could not find any signal, even though the park said that I should get about 10 channels. I changed the direction at every selection, nothing. Why? There is a batwing attached to my antenna. In other places, there is no problem receiving the signal. Now I wonder, if I am receiving all channels? Or is it the nature of the beast to not get all the channels?
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skipnchar
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I suspect that not all television tuners are equal. You SHOULD be able to receive the same channels on either television when everything is equal. Could be an internal wiring issue of some sort and I am only ASSUMING that you have scanned for channels with both sets/converters, individually. If not then this may be your problem. I'd turn off the other set when you're running a search for channels again and see what happens.
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Your batwing is very, very, sensitive and directional. You could be off by only a couple of degrees and not get a station. Look at the others in the park and see if you can match the direction of their antenna.
Digital is all or nothing and you seem to have found the nothing.
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1. be sure the antenna switch is for both TVs. That is the little green light that runs of the battery. If you only have one switch than that may be where the problem lies.
2. Switch the 2 converters and re scan them both.
What happens?
If the boxes work the same way, (now the LR doesn't get the channels,) than it is the box.
As far as getting channels (this is for the original LR box I am posting about), at the site I am currently at for the past 30 days, some times I get channel 7 and other times I don't. As far as others getting all the channels, since the huge majority of RVers use dish or cable (if the rv park has it), I would be suspicious that those few of us without dish getting more.
But my friend who is only 4 sites away, constantly looses signal to stations I get. Trees, Leaves, direction, strength of the converter box etc could be the problem.
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rbp111
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To: Ready to Go
I had checked and found that they have seperate switches. And I have used the boxes before. In reference to your second question, I had switched them before, and did notice that the problem #1, that is. the input of the signal was not quite the same in the BR as it was in the LR.
To: skipnchar
I did check them individually.
It is frustrating. Maybe I should wish that Santa would bring me two new TVs.
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You could look at other antennas but you'll probably see that they point in a number of different directions. Go to this http://antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspxwebsite and click on the Choose an Antenna box. You'll be able to fill in your location and conditions and it will tell you which direction for what stations and how far away the transmitters are. Good luck.
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Old-Biscuit
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It's Christmas.......
Get yourself a couple of new TV's with digital tuners and get rid of those frustrating converter boxes.
Not that that will end the frustration(s).......you will still have each TV getting same/more/less stations then other TV cause digital tuners aren't the same and you will still have problems getting signals cause of the digital signal is directional all or nothing and stations may/may not come in due to distance/terrain and then when you finally get the antenna pointed in the right direction and the transponder is within range and you have scanned the channels and you are just ready to sit down and enjoy a little TV.....it will rain!
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sch911
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ReadyToGo wrote:1. be sure the antenna switch is for both TVs. That is the little green light that runs of the battery. If you only have one switch than that may be where the problem lies.
That switch controls the power to the batwing's amplifier. There should only be one per antenna (one per RV)....
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Old-Biscuit wrote:It's Christmas.......
Get yourself a couple of new TV's with digital tuners and get rid of those frustrating converter boxes.
That's what I did. TVs are cheap now.
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You don't say if you have a separate antenna in your house hooked up to each converter box or if both boxes connect to the same antenna. You might need a signal booster for your antenna in the house.
In the RV, were you out in the open or was your antenna blocked in anyway from the direction of where the signal would be coming from? Shoulds and shouldn'ts don't always apply - and while it should not really matter sometimes it does. There are meters that you can put between your RV tv and the antenna coax. As you turn the antenna, the meter will show the signal strength. You can see where to stop turning for maximum available signal.
I can get fairly good digital reception outside my house in my RV, but inside my house when I have tried using the converter box and an antenna, I have had to almost literally stand on my head to get just a few channels. If I stood and held the antenna I got better reception, but once I let go - forget it. It was better in the old days with analog TV and rabbit ear antennas - at least you could see a fuzzy, snowy picture and hear full sound. Now you get a blue screen of nothing.
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