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Chapter 12

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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