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I just bought a 31' Greyhawk. So far everything is great. I'm having trouble trying ti figure out how I can get more stations on my TV at a camp site. I hook up the cable and I can only get 2 - 8. I must be doing something wrong. Also if I raise the antenna I get no signal at all. Even in front of my house..
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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therink
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Make sure your tuner on the tv set menu is set to cable, not tuner or air. That is what I have to do with mine.
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On the antenna issue, you should have a antenna booster you can turn on. Look for a little red button & red light on one of the antenna coax plates. After raising the antenna you can also rotate it toward the city with most channels.
Are you setting the TV to the correct input signal (cable vs antenna)?
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Cruisineasy
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Thanks.. Didn't even think of that..
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When you are using a digital TV to receive over-the-air (antenna) stations you need to let it find the stations by using the TV's menu and selecting the appropriate function (usually something like "channel scan"); some TV's require a similar scan for cable channels. Our new LG scans analog and digital cable and analog and digital over-the-air and then can retrieve any of them.
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Usually the TV inputs are wired so that antenna booster needs to be turned off for the signal from the cable input to come through. That may be your no signal at all problem.
The 2-8 problem is about telling the TV turner what band to use. Only analog cable channels 2-13 share frequencies assignments with broadcast channels. If your TV thinks it is receiving broadcast, that's what you get, if it happens to be on the cable (some companies have dropped analog channels).
Analog cable 14-83 are on a band different from the broadcast UHF that use those numbers. If your TV doesn't auto-detect what it is connected to, you need to tell it. There should be a menu option with Broadcast (or OTA or Tuner), and one or more types of Cable. If more than one, most analog cable systems will be on the first one that comes up, the other options, if there, are so the TV can be sold in other markets.
You will get digital cable channels (101-999) only if the TV is digital cable ready, fewer older RV sets are. Then you would get the channels that are not blocked or encrypted. Encrypted channels need to be turned on by the cable company, for an identified receiver based on what has been paid for.
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Yes, exactly.
Whenever I am having difficulty getting any good channels on a cable hook-up the first thing I check is the antenna booster. When it is left on it defeats the cable signal. Of course checking all the coax connections is important as well.
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Download the manual to the TV from the TV manufacturer. You'll be able to learn the setup procedures for the set. Also make sure that the antenna is an HD antenna.
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