Having a beeper, meter, tone, etc. is all great provided that the antenna is pointed in the correct direction when you do the original scan to begin with. From what I've seen with these converters (and I now have 6 on my desk), some will not allow you to tune a channel unless it was scanned upon power-up, and that's a problem when you're on the road.
Keep THIS LINK handy, and learn to use it before you need it. It's a good start.
PS- There is no requirement for the digital transmitters to be co-located with their analog equivalents. They could quite easily be located across town from each other. Some folks are using this opportunity to right a wrong (bad location) that may be 50 years old, or the town just grew in the wrong direction.
Turn slowly till you get signal. Turn even more slowly back till you loose it
Then turn (in the original direction till you loose it, Turn back slowly till you re-aquire, Mark mentally the point at which you acuire/loose it and park half way in between
Or navigate the menus to the SIGNAL STRENGTH on screen display
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business John is Near Kenwood TS-2000 housed in a 2005 Damon Intruder 377
wa8yxm wrote: Turn slowly till you get signal. Turn even more slowly back till you loose it
Then turn (in the original direction till you loose it, Turn back slowly till you re-aquire, Mark mentally the point at which you acuire/loose it and park half way in between
Or navigate the menus to the SIGNAL STRENGTH on screen display
This is all assuming that your converter allows a manual tuning. 4 of my 6 do not. They MUST find the stations via auto-scan.
Thanks for the ideas. Right now I can't see the digital tv from the antenna crank so I never paid any attention to whether it had a signal strength indicator.
At least now I have a better idea of what to look for in a convertor and the fact that I'm probably going to have to do some internet research to find stations in advance.
I find it a pain. Apparently part of the problem is that a lot of stations currently have their digital transmitter arrays mounted half way down the tower & won't move them up until they shut down the analogue ones. I live 50 miles out from Vancouver & can only get 2 digital stations, if i go in closer I can get several. Good job I usually watch movies when camping.
Beddows wrote: I find it a pain. Apparently part of the problem is that a lot of stations currently have their digital transmitter arrays mounted half way down the tower & won't move them up until they shut down the analogue ones. I live 50 miles out from Vancouver & can only get 2 digital stations, if i go in closer I can get several. Good job I usually watch movies when camping.
That's true, and being side mounted causes them to be directional where the top mounted antennas may not be (but often are depending on intended coverage). We're all working really hard to fix these issues even now. And the tower crews are so busy that one of the people we use now owns a business jet to ferry their crews around the country as fast as possible.
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