[BC] Re-scanning DTV channels may not work...

[Burt I. Weiner]

Ron,

You are correct.  In my case I am about 13 miles line of site from 
Mt. Wilson and Mt. Harvard.  The signal at my location is more than 
ample.  I use an external aerial, have a few dB's of padding to keep 
them in reason and looking at the "boxes" of data with a spectrum 
analyzer, they are nice and flat across the top.

Some of the converter boxes, I don't know about real sets, only 
record new channels during a re-scan.  If they saw an analog channel 
there before, that assignment is still there and left alone after a 
re-scan.  Seems like the folks that designed the software for these 
boxes could've thought it out a wee bit better, but maybe there's a 
good reason for the way they did it and I'm just not understanding it.

Burt

>    Scanning and not getting everything or re-scanning and 
> (possibly) loosing some and gaining
>channels generally indicates an inadequate signal level.  I bought 
>an 18 dB gain amplifier from
>Wally World 6 months or so ago (for about $20) that fixed me up just 
>great.  An antenna improvement
>might be the ticket.
>
>--
>Ron KA4INM