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combo tv box PORTLAND, Ore. - In February, the government will require everytelevision station to flip from an analog to a digital signal.

    Last week, KATU-TV turned off its analog signal for 10 seconds tohelp you test your TV system to see if you are ready.

    Since then, we've received a lot of e-mails from our viewers whostill have questions, so we've put together some answers here foryou.

    Make Sure Your Antenna Is Correctly Tuned In

    One person told us she hooked up the converter box and got all ofthe digital channels except for channel 2's digital signal.

    According to Alan Batdorf, Chief Engineer at KATU-TV, the problemcould have been her antenna.  You have to adjust it to find thesweet spot and unlike an analog signal, you won't see static thatclears as you get closer to the right spot.  The picture is eitherthere or not there, so you have to be precise.

    "This is going to sound crazy but if you take your antenna androtate it five degrees one way or the other and then try it again,99 percent of the time that solves their problem," Batdorfexplained.

    And you may have to adjust it again if it rains or if somethingbumps your antenna.  And then try manually entering the channel onthe tuner.  Sometimes the arrow up/down buttons will skip channelsthat were previously not coming in.

    If that's not the problem, you may be looking at the wrong channel.

    "Somebody says 'hey, I have a digital TV set and I lost yoursignal.'  Well, we found out they were watching channel 2 and not2-1.  2-1 is our digital signal," said Batdorf.