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Question

DTV boxes not showing channels

May 11, 2017 5:21PM PDT

I am beyond frustrated. This morning my tv was working great, showed channels and everything, now it's not showing signals. I have tried two different converter boxes and no go. I have tried two different antennas, no go. I checked out the cables and they look fine, along with the outlets and all. I keep on doing rescans for channels and setups and nothing shows up. I have moved the antenna all around the house, nothing shows up. I have switched the yellow, orange and white plugs into different places on to the converter box, nothing happens. I have even tried RF out and the audio out features, nothing happens. I have a friend that lives nearby that insists that she can see local channels on her tv, so I don't think it's an outage with the antenna/satellite signals.

So what in the world is going on? I am frustrated, I am sorry that I didn't check to see if there is a previous post on this matter and I need help. Any kind of help is appreciated. My tv is a sanyo, my DTV box is a magnavox TB100MW9 and my rabbit ears are the philips kind with the signal straightener. I have a RF moderator. (Please excuse my spelling).

Thank you so much.

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Clarification Request
What country?
May 11, 2017 5:44PM PDT

As more and more countries shut down what you can pick up with rabbit ears I have to wonder if that's what's up. For HDTV receivers you use the new antenna type and not rabbit ears.

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Thanks for responding.
May 11, 2017 6:01PM PDT

I am in the US, I use older rabbit ears with the signal straightener. I tried a almost new model, the phillips SDV1125T (I picked these up at a yard sale a couple years ago and they worked for me at the time), installed it and nothing came on the tv.

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The Philips is one of those combo antennas.
May 12, 2017 6:54AM PDT

Looks like you can't use rabbit ears since it's for VHF channels and HDTV (some call these DTV) are not on the VHF channels.

If you get a good HDTV antenna and still dead, time to have a TV tech come out and see what's up.

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Thanks, it's now fixed
May 12, 2017 11:32AM PDT

It was my 50ft coax cable (that use to take the antenna into certain areas of the apartment) that was the problem. It started to kink up and when I took out the kink, wires were showing. No prob....I ended up going to the store and getting a new cable. It now works.

Thanks again for your help.