{"id":288,"date":"2010-05-20T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T22:13:29","slug":"where-do-i-point-the-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/where-do-i-point-the-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do I point the antenna?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> Where do I point the antenna?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> We recommend using <a title=\"Antennas Point\" href=\"\/transmitter-locator.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.Antennapoint.com<\/a> as a tool to help locate the direction of the transmission towers you are trying to receive.<\/p>\n<p>When placing the antenna on the roof or inside the house first choose a location that has the clearest view toward your local transmission towers. Once you have installed the antenna you will need to do a complete channel scan on your TV or digital converter box. If the desired stations are not tuned in you may need to realign the antenna and try another rescan. (note: any time you reposition the antenna you must rescan your channels.) If this fails to give the desired results please contact <a title=\"Antennas Direct\" href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antennas Direct<\/a> customer service for assistance at 877-825-5572.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Where do I point the antenna?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: We recommend using www.AntennaPoint.com as a tool to help locate the direction of the transmission towers you are trying to receive &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-the-expert"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where do I point the antenna? - The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/where-do-i-point-the-antenna\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where do I point the antenna? - The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Question: Where do I point the antenna?  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