antenna TV question total newbie
Thanks again for your help. We are in a rustic CG in Tamworth, NH for the summer, no cable TV. We only have our new Winegard batwing for antenna TV and we ONLY get one channel (ABC network). WE hav...
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BB_TX wrote:
If you are in the mountains and/or more than 50 miles or so from the nearest city with multiple OTA stations available, you are probably out of luck with your bat wing antenna.
X2 on where you are located.
That said. I full-time and I have never had less than 10 channels.
1. Look outside and see what direction everyone else's antenna is pointed.
2. Turn your antenna to match the same direction as everyone else as a starting point.
3. Scan for channels.
4. 'Each' time you tweak/turn the antenna to bring in more channels you have to hit rescan channels on your TV menu.
5. Turn antenna very slow and a little at a time. The digital ota channels are not like the old analog days where you gave the antenna a spin and you were done. You have to inch it.
The only other problem I ever had was a bad coax cable. We take those on and off a million times when Rv'ing and they get tired. Digital channel reception does not play well with a tired or cracked inside old coax cable.
And trees, digital reception does not like trees. If your antenna is pointed in the right direction and there are big trees you still might have problems. Inching up the RV to get a shot out between trees sometimes helps.
