I have 3 Roku tvs that can’t/don’t receive MeTv.. 2 of the 3 have their own antenna the 3rd shares an antenna with my bedroom pioneer fire tv which I can receive MeTv on when I search and scan. My kitchen tv is an lg has its own antenna and also gets MeTv. I started a tech chat with Roku it was the worst customer support ever kept blaming my “tv service provider and stating my antenna apparently doesn’t support that channel” lol
What’s some of you techy individuals thoughts on this? I’m pretty savvy but this has be stumped.
Ps this started a little over a month ago the Roku tvs at one time did get MeTV.
The statement "my antenna apparently doesn’t support that channel" may not be wrong. I depends on what channel MeTV is broadcast on, more specifically, what band the transmitter is using, VHF or UHF.
Most of the "digital" TV antennas currently available do not receive VHF frequencies. Physical channels 2-13 are VHF, 14-36 are UHF. Don't be fooled into believing that the channel you are watching (if it is within the 2-13 channel range) is a VHF channel because the OTA ATSC 1.0 system utilizes "virtual" channels, for example, let's say that you are watching channel 7, it is possible that this channel may actually be broadcasting in the UHF frequency band and is using a "virtual" channel 7. In Austin, channel 7 is
actually using the VHF channel 7 frequency so it is very difficult to receive this channel on a typical UHF only antenna unless you are very close to the transmission tower.
I know that this is confusing, and to add to the confusion, VHF antennas come in two different flavors, lowband VHF and highband VHF, some antennas (mostly large outdoor antennas) can receive both, and a few antennas (again, mostly large outdoor antennas) can receive all three (VHF low, VHF high, and UHF). Lowband VHF (channels 2-6) is the most difficult to receive because the antenna is necessarily large to pickup the much longer wavelengths. This is why there are some TV antennas advertising that they receive UHF and VHF high.
