Weird Antenna Tip for Digital TV Reception Over the Air

Okay, you want a very strange but very useful tip or trick for your TV? Or your digital receiver box, if you’re using a TV that doesn’t have one built in. This tip, or trick, or whatever you want to call it, has worked for me for a very long time with antennas, and I do not know why (it may be the shielding around the cables being used), but, try this:

Instead of screwing the antenna cord end firmly into your TV or your digital receiver, try just barely connecting the damned thing. I kid you not. By that, I mean, have it so the male antenna cord end is barely even touching the female receptor on the TV/receiver. In fact, if you can, just have them touch and don’t even screw the damned antenna end in at all.

Now try auto-scanning for channels. I kid you not, you should receive at least about 48 channels in any market, over the air (OTA) — including things like MeTV, which is a pain in the ass to get on any streaming network. I ended up with 54 OTA channels.

Seriously. Try it. Muck about with the antenna cord by barely attaching it, see what happens.

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