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KHOU 11 antenna. I haven't been able to get it for a week durin

KHOU 11 antenna. I haven't been able to get it for a week durin
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luannski Top Forum Contributor14.1 yrs
~ 1 year, 3 mos ago   Jun 17, '25 10:26am  
KHOU 11 antenna. I haven't been able to get it for a week during the daytime.
Does anyone else have this problem?
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MissAmericanPie Top Forum Contributor6.5 yrs
~ 1 year, 3 mos ago   Jun 17, '25 10:34am  
luannski :
Very common with antennas. Literally anything can affect reception, including where you sit in a room lol!
 
Mine is a whole house roof mounted good one. It still happens to me with different channels. Trees and things growing in certain directions can affect your reception, time of day and nite broadcast fluctuations can happen too.
 
It will probably come back.
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EddyFree 12.6 yrs
~ 1 year, 3 mos ago   Jun 17, '25 11:13am  
See if your TV has a "signal strength indicator" on one of the menus somewhere....If so, have someone turn the antenna slightly while you monitor the signal strength and then let them know when it's highest.....If that doesn't work you can always try "rescanning" the channels, there should be an option on one of the menus to do that...
 
One bad thing about antenna TV is that sometimes you'll have to sacrifice some stations for the others to come in well.....And then there's the issue of "vegetative growth" from trees and such impeding a once good signal....Only solution to that is to cut the vegetation if it's on your property or move the whole antenna.....
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mellen 16.8 yrs
~ 1 year, 3 mos ago   Jun 17, '25 1:33pm  
luannski :
 
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There is a web site that you can use to help position your antenna. It also will give you a signal strength of different transmitters at your location. I put a screen shot up for 77345 area code. It shows KHOU 11 with a very weak signal in 77345. This is most likely due to interference due to the tall buildings down town houston that are in a direct line between the transmitter and my house. Some times few a miles east or west will make a big difference in signal interference and reception. The web site is Channelmaster.com
 
Edited to add a signal above 50dBm is a weak siginal.
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