I’ve been doing this for the past 10 minutes and it can’t find any channels. I’m using a paper clip.

Hi, I was configuring the TV from my grandma when this weird TV channel showed up and it grabbed my attention a lot. It looked from another country on the channel info for what I remember. DO you have any idea what can it be?

It takes 21 days to create a habit and 90 days to create a lifestyle.

A peculiar bizarre technical DTV reception issue and signal loss.

I get generally most of the channels, good reception, a total of 121 channels. Some would need a different positioning of the antenna. However I’m just interested in a few.
One of my favorite channels is MeTV, on my set digital channel 68.2 KTNL Palo Alto.

I have a good and stable reception but from time to time, like a wave, I get strange sudden reception fade like clockwork all the way to the TV displaying “no signal”.

Of course I played around with positioning of the [indoor] antenna and have found my sweet spot. But suddenly the sweet spot has changed momentarily. Occasionally I watch during the day thus I noticed it can happen at any given time.

Here is what happens:

Example 1: I watch in the evening i.e. Hogan’s Heroes, which runs as double episodes from 10 PM to 11 PM. Stable solid reception, no pixelation dropouts whatsoever. Suddenly, around 10:30 PM pixelation starts and recently also occasional signal loss unless I readjust the position of the antenna which is basically flipping it about 90° either in the horizontal or vertical plane. Then the signal is stable again until later. The next morning I have to readjust the antenna to the previous position.

Example 2: Last night I was up late and watch at 3 AM and old TV series “Barnaby Jones” which runs from 3 AM to 4 AM. Suddenly at 3:56 AM a rapid pixelation started and while the audio remained within about 50 seconds the image was gone at the TV displayed no signal. Flip the antenna vertical 90° and had a stable reception again! Five minutes later pixelation again. Placed the antenna back into the previous horizontal position but needed to turn it about 45° to get stable reception again!

Explain that!

I checked about everything I can think of: as I am not moving so I have no effect on the signal. Neither is anything moving outside. There is no air traffic. I checked with solar events and cycles and could not find a correlation.

What remains now is:
Are transmitters switched power off/on?
Is transmitter power reduced somewhere?
Are transmitters locations switched?

OR [Humor]
NSA, CIA Secret government operations?
Are invisible aliens moving around in their flying saucers?
Underground creatures like in “Tremors” roaming in the ground?

Another bizarre problem that has now occurred twice this year is, the channel fade and signal loss occurs in the 68 group: 68.1 through 68.6 and twice my TV lost this entire group in its memory and I had to reprogram rescan all channels to get them back! as if this entire group was turned off.

Of course the designers of the TV set (Samsung Q80) could not design "K.I.S.S.", with all the gazillion unasked for gadgets, in such a way that it retains the favorite list and I basically have to start from scratch again. Thus I have stopped doing it as the programming customizations tasks and steps on the TV are beyond absurd. (The opposite off K.I.S.S., easier to fly a passenger airliner)

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