Television Problem - Interference

[pmbeck]

Hi I am wondering what would cause television signal to break up when using anything electrical in our new travel trailer. Retreat Model with television that came with the trailer.

[Englishman]

sound like electrical interference. Does this happen when using both dvd and antenna or just antenna? if it just when using the antenna then you may have a power cable that rapped around the coax.

try running the tv from a different power source thats not in the trailer via an extension cord. and also try an external antenna if you have one.

[pmbeck]

Okay I can check that out for sure. I also noticed on television in the bedroom placed by myself does not hardly break up and also picks up a lot more channels than this one that came with the new trailer.

[Englishman]

lets us know if anything changes with each test.

[azlee56]

I tried to get channels on the Sansui 1900 bedroom TV in our 08 Montana 3500RL (whew that was mouthful). BUT, I couldn't get many channels. This happened to our the living room tv, but then I learned about the booster button and they all came in fine. This TV is back at the booster button and only gets a few Spanish channels and says "digital signal low". The booster is on and this is just to get channels with the attenna, not cable or satellite.

Did the channel search with the booster on and off and it was the same stuff picked up. Takes it forever to scan them too.

Any suggestions?

[Englishman]

do you have a stand alone booster? Ie the type you can get for the old crt tv's. if you do try that it sound like the jack in the bedroom not connect to the booster.

[hankpage]

Originally Posted by azlee56

I tried to get channels on the Sansui 1900 bedroom TV in our 08 Montana 3500RL (whew that was mouthful). BUT, I couldn't get many channels. This happened to our the living room tv, but then I learned about the booster button and they all came in fine. This TV is back at the booster button and only gets a few Spanish channels and says "digital signal low". The booster is on and this is just to get channels with the attenna, not cable or satellite.

Did the channel search with the booster on and off and it was the same stuff picked up. Takes it forever to scan them too.

Any suggestions?

If you go to Antenna Point and enter your present location it will tell you what direction to aim your antenna. Most of the digital channels are on UHF and aiming is critical. Every time you move the antenna you must rescan for channels. Setting the tv to just scan OTA (AIR) channels will shorten the scan time. Hope this helps, Hank ............... Just sitting by a nice campfire at night requires no scanning. ..... I know, I like my tv too.

This does not help with the electrical interference but may help get more channels