NO TV RECEPTION

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   My tv used to pick up a few channels, now only a few and they are breaking up. Camper has been sitting for a while. Anybody know what the problem could be. How can I get some clear channels?

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henryv Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 259	Topic: NO TV RECEPTION Posted: 16 Mar 2018 at 10:09pm
	My tv used to pick up a few channels, now only a few and they are breaking up. Camper has been sitting for a while. Anybody know what the problem could be. How can I get some clear channels?

StephenH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6288	Posted: 16 Mar 2018 at 10:31pm
	Same location? Did you turn on the amplifier (button on connector plate on the wall)? Connections tight? Weather conditions the same as before or was it rainy? Stations you can get on a good day may not be very good when it is rainy. Do you need to re-scan for active channels? If you have moved your R-Pod, I suggest doing this. Other than that, I don't have any other suggestions. We have the older 'batwing' style antenna that is fixed and is supposed to be omnidirectional. The newer style can be rotated. If that is yours, I can't help as I have no experience with that one.
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henryv Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 259	Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 6:51am
	My antennae is the fixed kind. The red button stays on. The camper hasn't been moved in a year.

Richand Cindy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 16 Apr 2016 Location: New Jersey Online Status: Offline Posts: 328	Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 8:19am
	Any new buildings go up since, or have there been new electric cables put up? It could be the surrounding conditions that changed that would affect the signal. Before concluding something is wrong in the RPOD I would move to an area where there is a strong signal. You can go to antennaweb.org to plug in your location to see what kind of signal strength you have.
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lostagain Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587	Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 8:19am
	You are being castigated for not taking your Pod camping. The Pod goddess is very strict about this. You can get away with maybe 6 or 7 months of not camping, but then things start to happen.
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ParPod Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 28 Oct 2016 Location: Manitoba Online Status: Offline Posts: 105	Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 8:31am
	Yeah...I've never really found the reception to be all that good anywhere. Went through the forum and tried the suggestions but at best have only ever got 1 or 2 stations - regardless of where we set up.....although StephenH suggested a re-scan and that I haven't tried. Once we get it out winter storage I'll give that a try! But other than that it seems to be a pretty cranky system.
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Richand Cindy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 16 Apr 2016 Location: New Jersey Online Status: Offline Posts: 328	Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 9:22am
	We have rarely used the television since camping in the woods is generally terrible for reception so we bring along alot of DVDs. But if we are in a strong signal area, we have gotten over 40 stations once and all very clear and no pixelating. But with the newer adjustable antenna we find it takes a long time to scan. We have to scan once and if nothing, turn the knob 90 degrees scan again and repeat until we find suitable stations. So I do not think there is any problem with the RPODs equipment. If you really want to watch tv the only way to insure that is to get a satellite dish with portable antenna. We have found that depending on wifi for television is bad since you need fast wifi which we almost never get and many campgrounds do not have cable. People may say just stay home if you are going to watch tv but we like to relax at night after a long day hiking/sightseeing and just want to watch an hour or two before bed. We probably will get a dish for this season, if the price is reasonable
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mcarter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419	Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 9:35am
	For me it's about location. If near a metro area and in a park with limited tree coverage, I get reasonable reception. When farther out and in tree covered areas reception goes down. We bring DVDs and listen to weather and news on the radio. +1 to Richard Cindy comment, my last motor coach had the rotational antennae and finding the right direction was an issue that took multiple scans. The folks who want a constant TV source have gone dish, high end RVs are the same way.
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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 10:07am
	For those with steerable antennas - I have found that a rather low tech, old fashioned compass will get me close. (If you must use your smart phone, there are apps). TV stations are in or around big cities, usually. For instance, when camping in the Smoky Mts., I aim towards Knoxville. After scanning, I fine tune/adjust the antenna for best performance. That said, I have also found that even small changes in location can make a big difference. In a place I frequent, in one campsite, the reception is very bad. One campsite over and it is good! Also, if you are like me, I'm usually camping some distance from any major city - 50 miles or more. I have one of the old fashioned "batwing" antennas (Winegard Sensar IV). Frankly, I'm surprised that it does as well as it does, especially at only about 10 feet, or so, off the ground.

GlueGuy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2628	Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 10:25am
	If you want to know where to aim your antenna (for those of you that can), the FCC has a handy-dandy DTV Reception Maps application on the web. To use it, enter your GPS coordinates in the "Enter Location:" box, and wait a couple seconds. It will list all the stations you can receive from that location, as well as their relative signal strengths (they're also color coded as Strong, Moderate, Weak, or No Signal). If you click on the call sign for an individual station, it will show the azimuth (AKA "compass direction") that the station is on the map. You will often find that several of the strongest stations are in the same general direction, as some towers have multiple stations, or they are located on the same antenna farm.
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