Bad OTA Tuner on HR20-100??

herrjj1 said:

I am trying to figure out if I have a tuner going out on my HR20-100. I currently have this hooked up to a cheap pair of rabbit ears and Tuner 1 goes from 80's to N/A and just keeps jumping back and forth. Tuner 2 is fine as it holds the signal consistently in the 80's. This is only happening on 3 of the locals that I get. Our ABC affliliate is fine.

I have reset the receiver, unplugged it overnight, repeated OTA setup and it is still happening. If it is bad is this something D* would replace and would I receive another HR20 in return? Thanks

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Since you mentioned rabbit ears, you must be talking about OTA, not satellite tuners.

From your description, if the signal goes between 80 and zero very often, that's a multipath problem. I suspect you are within a few miles of the tv stations antenna. Even if other tuner isn't getting it that bad, it will if you watch it long enough

Unfortunately I have experienced a similar problem with an HR20-100 and H20-100. The 100's have older tuners and multipath is a problem. Either you need a better antenna pointed in a direction to minimize multipath or a new receiver. The HR21/HR22 series with AM21 OTA tuner will probably solve your problem or an HR20-700, but that will be very difficult to come by