OTA Local HD disappear?

[like2watch]

I have a ViP 622. On Sunday I attached an indoor antenna because I want to record a PBS special in HD and DISH locals are not HD for my PBS stations. I did a scan and got 25 local HD stations, looked at them, programmed to record the shows, etc. Today I went to view one of them and got the error about the signal being lost. I tried re-scanning and got zero found. I did a front panel reset and it came back up with the lost signal error. I checked the connections (hadn't touched anything) and tried moving the antenna around a bit. No luck. Called support, got "advanced" tech who knew nothing. I had deleted all the stations hoping a rescan would pick up but still getting zero.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Stewart Vernon]

Hi, and welcome... We probably need a lot more info here to give a thorough answer. If this is the first time you had connected an antenna, it's possible you were only getting marginal signals that day and now a few days later with normal atmospheric conditions (or perhaps worse) those marginal signals are gone.

I had to spend the better part of an afternoon tweaking my setup to find a reliable location for my indoor antenna.

Theoretically possible you had an OTA tuner failure... but I'd like to remove other possibilities before you go there.

[47HO]

Does your TV have its own digital tuner? If so, connect the local antenna directly and try it, just to narrow down the possibilities.

[like2watch]

Thanks for the reply. I had forgotten that I played with the HDTV settings AFTER I had gotten it to work - was trying to see if they would improve the picture quality. Resetting to offair did the trick.