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Connecting Off-Air Antenna
To get the best possible digital signal reception, make sure you use the best off-air
antenna for where you live:
• You can receive a limited number of channels using a rabbit ears type antenna on top
of the TV set, or a much larger number via a large UHF/VHF indoor/outdoor antenna.
• The higher the quality of the antenna you use, the greater its range and the better its
reception will be.
The Consumer Electronics Association maintains a website, www.antennaweb.org, that
you can visit for help in choosing an antenna.You may want to contact a professional TV
antenna installer for advice or help in choosing, installing, and aiming an antenna. Keep in
mind, digital off-air TV broadcasting is in its infancy. So, digital off-air service may be
interrupted because:
• Broadcasters are testing digital signals, and may stop broadcasting without notice.
• Many broadcasters do not yet have permanent broadcast stations and may be
operating at less than full power.
• Broadcasters are not legally required to provide full-time digital signals for several
years.
• Some digital channels do not broadcast all the time.
If you have questions about off-air channels, contact the broadcasters, not DISH Network.
DISH Network does not broadcast off-air signals and so cannot do anything to change off-
air signal quality. However, the receiver's digital channel setup menus provide a signal
strength bar that can help you in aiming the off-air TV antenna for the strongest possible
signal.
Here’s something interesting! We all know that there’s no Channel 1, but did you
know that no TV stations broadcast on Channel 37? That channel is reserved for
radio astronomy. Perhaps someday we will receive TV shows from Alpha Centauri.
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