Chapter 12

Scanning for Over-the-Air Channels

SCANNING FOR OVER-THE-AIR CHANNELS

After your over-the-air antenna is adjusted for the best reception and connected to the receiver’s OVER-THE-AIRANTENNA IN connection, use these instructions to scan over-the- air channels into the satellite receiver’s menus.

 

 

 

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1Verify your over-the-air antenna is installed and connected to the receiver’s OVER-THE-AIR

ANTENNA IN.

2On the remote control, press MENU, select System Setup, and then Local Channels. If this is the first time you have opened the Local Channels screen, it will have no channels listed.

3Scan for channels by selecting Scan Locals.

4The scan will take a few minutes to complete. When it finishes, the results will show how many channels the scan found. If you want to stop the scan before it is completed, select Cancel.

5Select OK to go back to the Local Channels screen and view the list of channels.

Note: The ARROW at the bottom left means that there are more channels, off the bottom of the screen, which you can get to with the ARROW keys if you wish to edit their names or remove them.

6If you want to name the over-the-air channels, continue on. If you do not want to name your over-the-air channels, select Done. You will then be taken out of the menus back to watching TV.

7Select a channel and then select Edit Name to modify the way the channel name displays on your screen. You can rename only one channel at a time.

8Use the on-screen keyboard on the screen to select the letters of your channel name.

9When you are finished making changes, select Done. The receiver displays a message while it is saving the changes. Be sure not to interrupt the receiver while it is saving the changes.

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612 specifications

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