I receive all digital channels from Lubbock, Tx but 11.1. Channels 14.1,22.1 and 46.1 are weak but stay locked in and receiving signal most of the time. Channels 13.1, 28.1 and 34.1 have excellent signal and work great. Channel 5 (PBS) station is weakest station but works ok at times. Channel 11.1 will not go all digital until June 12, 09. I get no-signal on channel 11.1 at all times. I have an outside antenna (VHF/UHF) about 30 ft. high. I do get anolog pass thru on my magnavox digital to analog converter box but the analog quality is very poor. I don't believe it is a signal strength problem as there is very little snow in analog picture background. There appears to be a lot of interference in the analog signal. Lots of color lines and diagonal lines. Channels 14.1 and 46.1 also still broadcast analog and their signals do not have interference. They are weak and have snow in the background but I receive them ok. According to FCC maps channel 11 is weak here but should have sufficient signal to be received. I believe that their analog and digital carrier frequencies are causing interference to each other. Just my opinion as I have no way to check this. I would appreciate any assistance or information that you can come up with.
When the Government decided to make all stations go digital, most places we're telling about the change over. But what they forgot to mention to the ones like you that you may have to change your outside antenna. They make antenna just for picking up digital signal. So you may have to change that also. be Sure and check the cable going from the ant. to back of the converter box is in good condition or may have a break somewhere that could cause more trouble. If you see any bad places on the cable you may want to replace it now when you do the antenna.
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Channel 19 actually broadcasts on VHF channel 11 (approximately 201MHZ) and channel 25 actually broadcasts on UHF channel 15 (approximately 479MHZ). I know that sounds a bit weird but it has been done so that stations don't have to change there "call" channel number when we switched to Digital TV. Your digital converter box keeps track of this. This is important to understand because you need and antenna that is good at picking up both UHF and VHF signals. If you're not getting channel 19 it may be due to a poor VHF portion of your antenna. If your using a basic old set of rabbit ears for your antenna that has a loop in the middle then I might have a trick for you. Most rabbit ears have 2 telescopic antenna elements. Extend or collapse until each length is 14.7 inches long. (Which is a quarter wavelength at 201MHZ). You are effectively tuning (Optimizing) your antenna specifically for that channel 19. You may need to rotate your antenna a bit to find the best signal.
There are other factors which can hinder you receiving channel 19 but this is a good starting point. Let me know what type of antenna you have. Hope this helps.
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