Ken G. wrote:

Last night while watching the news on a
different UHF channel the screen kept going blank with a black strip
with `poor signal` that was from the station itself because i was
watching analog .

You must have been tuned to a *telepathic* station if they knew you
were getting a poor signal.

I have some of those digital converters . When they work its great but
getting all the channels to come in on rabbit ears i have to fight it .

Spend $30-$40 on a decent indoor antenna. This one seems to work quite
well (compared to rabbit ears), but there are others as well.

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