Unable to receive WSFA channel 12 in Montgomery, Alabama

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stevethebrain

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Unable to receive WSFA channel 12 in Montgomery, Alabama

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Post by stevethebrain » Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:50 pm

Unable to receive WSFA channel 12 in Montgomery, Alabama

I am located in zip code 36111 which is only a few miles from the station.

I have rescanned numerous times this channel won’t come it when it used to be a very strong signal, I have been informed they are replacing there antenna.

All other channels come in fine.

I’ve attempted to manually add wsfa I typed wsfa unsuccessfully.

When I rescan I see wsfadt 12.1,12.2,12.3 are listed in the guide.

Any tips on receiving this channel it’s NBC and I’m missing indy car racing.thanks
I have been told that what was channel 12 is now actuelly channel 8 but the virtual channel is 12 channel 8 is waka cbs channel 8 and still comes in fine as channel 8 I'm confussed.thanks for any advice

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Post by garyan2 » Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:25 pm

Windows 7 WMC does not scan the VHF channels (2 - 13). You have to manually add it and when you do, use 'Digital TV channel" 12.x and 'Assigned frequency' of 8.

Your 8.x channels are actually broadcast on the UHF channel 25.
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Post by stevethebrain » Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:23 pm

excellent advice Garyan2 you are the man thanks I just edited out the previous wsfa channels and have the new channels test recording.

weird how channel 8 rescanned itself.

looks like I gained a few channels from nbc also gained some channels w/ the previous rescans. I'll be researching to see if there are more. thanks again glad you Guys are still here.STB

edit: what do you think about my new tuner still being named silicon dust I started a thread on this weird issue?

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