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Jetstreamer
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Oct 21, 2017

Antenna reception diminishes after initial channel search

We’ll get somewhere,turn on the television and let the program conduct an automatic channel search. Usually finds a dozen or more over the air digital channels. When you search through the channel lis...
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GordonThree
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Oct 21, 2017
rockylarson wrote:
I'm not sure if all OTA channels broadcast 24/7.



This is most likely the culprit.

TV stations can broadcast more than one video stream per channel. In their digital transmission, they might define 3 streams and your receiver programs them during the scan. For some reason, the station only chose to use one of those three, that will give you two dead "channels".

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