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I was helping my grandparents set up their new converter boxes last weekend and came across a major snag. Right now they get about 7 channels, four of which are major news channels, one is IPTV, and another is misc. I plugged the magic box in, it reveals they have 11% signal strength and can only pick up 4 channels, one of the original news channels (not the one they like of course) IPTV, and the misc channel with two of its spinnoffs that they never got before. They lost 3 of the favorites.
We tried turning the anntenea, and 11% is as good as it gets. The box recommended adjusting the anntenea or getting a "smart antennea" I wiki'ed this "smart antennea" and it seems to be able to detect which way the signal is coming from on it it's own. Major downside is that the plug in for this thing on the back of the converter looks like a huge telephone cord rather than coax, so we would have to run new wire from the antennea which is mounted on their roof.
Any ideas on how to get this thing to work without rewiring an expensive new antennea in? They want the same channels they had before, picture quality wasn't too hot but they were ok with that, they are on the backside of a hill so it probably never will be all that great anyway.
We tried turning the anntenea, and 11% is as good as it gets. The box recommended adjusting the anntenea or getting a "smart antennea" I wiki'ed this "smart antennea" and it seems to be able to detect which way the signal is coming from on it it's own. Major downside is that the plug in for this thing on the back of the converter looks like a huge telephone cord rather than coax, so we would have to run new wire from the antennea which is mounted on their roof.
Any ideas on how to get this thing to work without rewiring an expensive new antennea in? They want the same channels they had before, picture quality wasn't too hot but they were ok with that, they are on the backside of a hill so it probably never will be all that great anyway.
