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The antenna may need to point new. Look at www.antennaweb.org/aw/stations.aspx.

What people don't understand about the conversion is that many stations which have broadcast on the VHF TV band, channels 2-13 have their digital stations located on the UHF band channels 14-69.
To make things more confusing, they call their digital broadcasts on the UHF band by the channel number of their analog broadcasts on VHF, the channels they have held for years.
So if people want to get their digital station, they may need to make sure their antenna and any amplifier will handle UHF signals.
Finally to confound the confusion, some stations which have broadcast for years on channels 2-13 will broadcast their new digital signal on those channels. Others will abandon those channels which they have had for years and leave their digital signals where they have been during this transition period up on UHF.
So, there is hope for the person that says they now only get 3 channels. After February 17 or after June 12 whenever the local transition happens, their favorite stations may come back home to channels 2-13 on digital where their antenna system may be able to pick them up.
Your reader might check the web sites of their favorite stations to find out what the station's plans are.
You may want to keep checking too. Here in Oregon, KATU and KPDX which were going to cut over now are going to wait until summer.

Thanks for the tip. I live in an apartment surrounded by other buildings so I had splurged and got a $50 space age antenna from radio shack and reception wasn't any better than the old $10 cheapo one I already had.

Using a converter box connected to my analog TV, I brought in one of the channels. It was somewhat watchable but pieces of it were pixilated and the sound kept fading in and out. I realize this is a reception problem, but this is NOT an all or nothing situation. It is comparable to poor reception as in the past.

The antenna may need to point new---------HUH?

The antenna may need to point new---------HUH?



to point in a new direction. In the Portland Oregon area, the local broadcasters consolidated nearly all their transmitters feeding one tower, giving up their old locations. Others in other locations put up UHF transmitters at different locations from their analog transmitters for the digital signals and they are staying there.

Some stations will not be seen in some communities that their transmitter is in. In Salem Oregon, digital 17 is located west of town, while most antennas will be pointed due north to pick up stations in Portland, Oregon. Check out the antennaweb.org site for the actual locations of all of them and the orientation from where you are.