RV TV newbie
We are not newbies to camping in trailers---been doing it for many years. Many years WITHOUT a television. And, as they say, time flies when you're having fun and now we are older and would enjoy using the flatscreen TV that came with our 2014 rig....but we are about as ignorant of how to make this work as you could find!
We have a 19" Legend LED flatscreen. It's connected to the standard antenna that comes on all trailers. No cable or satellite hookups will be used us---just whatever we can find on the local stations....if there are any. Here's the rub:
While here at home (in the city, where TV signals of all shapes and kinds are available) we decided to set it up to become familiar with how to do it when we are camping and that's when things began to get enormously frustrating and very quickly.
Following the user's manual, we:
1) raised the antenna
2) pushed the antenna booster button to "on"
2) turned on the TV and used the setup wizard
3) ran a channel Auto-Scan
The results of that scan---here at home where there should be no trouble whatsoever in receiving the local broadcast channels---is that we got all of 8 digital channels. Three of those were home shopping type, 1 was all children's shows, 1 was a religious station and two were movie-type stations and one that seemed to be broadcast from Mexico! Not one of these were the local broadcast stations! The scan said there were 69 RF CH (whatever that is) and 8 digital and zero analog.
We moved the antenna in different directions to see if that made any difference and found that it didn't. We had also tried TV signal finder apps on our cell phones to see if that would help (it told us the same thing we knew at home, which was what direction to aim our antenna).
Are we doing something completely wrong? We followed the almost useless user's manual and double-checked all the connections behind the set and the wall and they all look good. So, please tell me...what are we not doing or doing wrong or should also be doing to pick up local broadcast channels? I'm beginning to think it's a waste to have this television if we can't use the darn thing! Granted, we haven't watched TV in our rigs before and we do understand that broadcast signals will vary depending on remoteness and terrain and all we are looking for are some basic news/weather/variety shows to watch at night before bed or if we are stuck inside during a downpour.
We have a 19" Legend LED flatscreen. It's connected to the standard antenna that comes on all trailers. No cable or satellite hookups will be used us---just whatever we can find on the local stations....if there are any. Here's the rub:
While here at home (in the city, where TV signals of all shapes and kinds are available) we decided to set it up to become familiar with how to do it when we are camping and that's when things began to get enormously frustrating and very quickly.
Following the user's manual, we:
1) raised the antenna
2) pushed the antenna booster button to "on"
2) turned on the TV and used the setup wizard
3) ran a channel Auto-Scan
The results of that scan---here at home where there should be no trouble whatsoever in receiving the local broadcast channels---is that we got all of 8 digital channels. Three of those were home shopping type, 1 was all children's shows, 1 was a religious station and two were movie-type stations and one that seemed to be broadcast from Mexico! Not one of these were the local broadcast stations! The scan said there were 69 RF CH (whatever that is) and 8 digital and zero analog.
We moved the antenna in different directions to see if that made any difference and found that it didn't. We had also tried TV signal finder apps on our cell phones to see if that would help (it told us the same thing we knew at home, which was what direction to aim our antenna).
Are we doing something completely wrong? We followed the almost useless user's manual and double-checked all the connections behind the set and the wall and they all look good. So, please tell me...what are we not doing or doing wrong or should also be doing to pick up local broadcast channels? I'm beginning to think it's a waste to have this television if we can't use the darn thing! Granted, we haven't watched TV in our rigs before and we do understand that broadcast signals will vary depending on remoteness and terrain and all we are looking for are some basic news/weather/variety shows to watch at night before bed or if we are stuck inside during a downpour.
