I have a roof antenna installed in 1986. Two days ago the TV stopped receiving the signal from Fox TV. Why?

Go get a whole bunch of aluminum foil for hats

Dumb question number # 1 Do you have a digital convertor or a TV made in the last five years? Has the convertor been re-initiated in the recent past?
Dumb question number # 2 Has the antenna twisted out of position? Try rotating the antenna to point at the city/ antenna for the Fox station.
The fact that the TV station says no one else has seen a change means something at your end has changed.

I had a digital converter box briefly when the analog to digital change occurred, but tossed it along with the CRT Tv when I bought a new flat screen TV shortly thereafter.

Antenna can be rotated with a manual control attached to the TV. Usually when the antenna is slightly out of position, there is a fuzzy image. In this case, there is no signal at all.

But I can fiddle with this.

Fiddling the antenna may fix it, that is the most likely cause of lost signal.

Um, well, Gail, you are experiencing a message from God which is: Gail, you don’t really want to watch Fox TV any more, so I’m taking care of that for you.

If the antenna is getting old and rusted (aren’t we all?), will rotating it a little to point at the Fox signal screw up the rest of it?

@susanc makes a good point (she always does). Maybe I can pass up a show once a week about crazy chefs.

Are you referring to Hell’s Kitchen?

If so, I concur.

But I could not live without my “Bones”. I’m surprised you’re not a fan. It based upon a real-life forensic anthropologist who wrote a book also. She helps solve crimes by analyzing what occurred when the remains are so old that primarily the skeleton is left. It’s really interesting.

The fictional Jeffersonian Museum stands in for the Snithsonian and there is an entire team of “squints” (scientists with specialized knowledge of insects, etc.) as well as an artist who does facial reconstructions to aid in identification.

Even tho fictional, its all based upon real world science and its not generally as gruesome as CSI and others of the genre.

If you’re ever interested in catching up with what was missed, there are regular reruns every Sat. and Sun.

I think you potentially might find it pretty interesting.

The antenna needs adjusting. It’s as simple as that.

All of the other channels, including the one aligned with the missing Fox, are still fine. I am afraid if I use the automatic rotator, adjuster, I will screw up the whole thing and it will fall off, forcing me to use DishTV, which is nasty, expensive and irritating.

Maybe it’s best to say adieu to Fox. As you have mentioned, no great loss.

@Buttonstc:Thanks for the heads up, but my goal is to watch less, rather than more, TV. I have read some of the Temperance Brennan books on which the series is predicated, and found them fun.

Hhhmmm…..well, first…....what is this “roof antenna”, and “1986” of which you speak ??

In a bizarre turn of events, as of last night, i am now picking up something called “The Shopping Channel,” inhabited by clones of my aunts and uncles and selling odd products. This channel is officially available in my ‘hood only by paying for either Dish or Direct TV (which I am not doing).

I just checked out “The Shopping Channel” again to make sure that I wasn’t hallucinating; the shills look like characters from the Lawrence Welk show, including the toupeés.

Thank you, boys…..

Hey, the outfits were dated but the music talent and ability was incredible and still holds up over time. Excellence of that caliber is timeless.

They regularly rerun episodes at the local PBS station here every SAT. afternoon. I watch it and I love it.

Henry Cuesta’s clarinet playing was easily the equal of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw.

And I have no idea how much flack Welk got about this from the network execs. but it was really great to see Arthur Duncan be regularly appearing on a major network show well in advance of the Civil Rights movement.

And I could listen to Tom Netherton’s mellifluous voice every day of he week. And all that without any need of the infamous Autotune.

Okay, does the fact that you now get a cable / satellite ONLY make you think that – - – maybe you are connected to someones cable feed and not the antenna on the roof.

I don’t know what to think. Since I live in a very rural area where no-one has cable and the majority of my neighbors have either Dish or DirectTV, it still remains a mystery. Channel 55.1 is a network called iON; then there is 55.2 (cartoons) 55.3 (old movies) 55.4 (paid programming) and 55.5 (QVC online shopping).

Perhaps today I will receive 55.6

@Buttonstc; You are right about the musical talents and abilities on the Lawrence Welk show and they certainly stuck to the tempo. Never any rubatos. Goodman and Shaw were more interesting clarinet players because they did stray from the “and-a-one-and-a-two”.) And they certainly all projected the safe middle-America culture of those days.

I just found this quote in the Wikipedia article about the show…but it was common knowledge at the time, I believe.

“These musicians were bound by an unofficial set of morals (artistic and personal) dictated by Welk, and if he believed the audience did not find them wholesome enough, they would be fired.

Former Champagne Lady Alice Lon was fired in 1959 for crossing her legs on a desk. After he fired Lon, thousands of letters filled the ABC mailroom, demanding an apology, and that she be rehired. Welk tried to get Lon back but she refused.”

Update: Since asking this question a month ago, I have a new flat screen 42” LG TV installed in second-floor bedroom.

The original TV, also a flat screen 46” Sony Bravia purchased in May, 2011, is installed in the basement.

Both work off the old (1986) roof antenna.

Basement TV continues to not get the Fox channel.

TV in bedroom does, which is now the second mystery.

Installer neither touched the manual adjustment for the antenna nor climbed on roof to fiddle with the actual antenna itself.

Installer guy said he had no explanation. Do any of you?

Has someone somehow hit the parenteral lock-out button for the Fox station? ? ?