Icehouse TV Reception

[Eelpout08]

Hello, I just put a winnegard model HA-0130 hideaway tv antenna on my fishhouse and hooked it up to a 19'' lcd TV. Unfortunatly all i get is 'no signal'. i have even tried a signal booster with the same results. I am hoping that it is because i am in my driveway and when i get on the lake it will pick up some sort of signal. just wondering if anyone else out there has an antenna like this and how it works for them. BTW i live about 60 miles west of MSP

Thank you in advance for your help!

"Waitin' for ice!"

[grpd]

I am not sure of type of anttena and such but I am pretty sure you either have to have cable or satalight to get reception or one of them boxes. Again I hope I do not look foolish on this but with just an anttena I do not think you will get reception w/o one of the above mentioned items

[acesinthehole]

What make and model# of TV is it?

[Eelpout08]

The TV is a Phillips 300 series, HD Ready Just bought it a week ago

[eyebjim]

Any tv purchased within the last year should not need a converter box. I live in delano (25 miles west)and in my driveway I get 1 to sometimes 2 channels. On the lake I get all available and some I didn't know were available. Hopefully it is just cause it is in your driveway. Did you rotate the antenna to see if you get channels in other directions. The antenna I have is one of those RV crank up tv antennas that have been around for ever. Not sure of the brand.

[Fishapalooza]

I think 60 miles is pushing it with a small ant. Your going to need a deep fringe ant.

[Eelpout08]

That is what i wanted to hear. I am really hoping that all the trees and houses are blocking the signal to the antenna since it is only 8 or 9 ft off the ground. i guess we will have to take it out to find out for sure, thanks for the input, anyone else have anything to add, feel free.

[LakeDocktor]

Eelpout, did you do a channel scan when you had it hooked up? when you manually enter a channel from the remote and it reads no signal, you are entering the analog channel the majority of the time. When you run the channel scan, it should search both analog and digital channels. Example, an analog channel of KARE 11 is 11 and the digital channel is 11-01. I am willing to bet that if you haven't already tried this that this is the problem. It could also be your antenna direction. Point it towards Shoreview or towards a local market in your area.

[eyebjim]

There is a chart somewhere about the DTV that shows what channels you should be able to recieve in what areas. www dot fcc dot gov/mb/engineering/maps/ is one of these fcc sites.

[Eelpout08]

Lakedoctor, i did do an autoscan and it found no channels, i dont think the antenna is directional, but i will try turning it to see if that helps, will also check out map, thanks

[s2h]

Great site eyebjim!

[Eelpout08]

Ditto!

[Eelpout08]

just a quick update. i pulled the fish house to the edge of town and picked up 11 channels, so i can only imagine it will work at least that good on the lake. i must say now i am impressed with the antenna.