Help With AFN In Barracks Room

[xjclown]

So i have been working on this issue for about 5 hours now and i think that i need a bit of help. Im stationed overseas in Japan and I live in the barracks. I recieve the basic AFN broadcast in my barracks room that was ran through me old tv. But now i have a new monitor that i can not hook the cable to. So thats why i bought a Kworld ATSC 110 TV Tuner card for my pc. I have searched all over this forum and done a ton of yahoo and google searches but come up with nothing. The problem that i am having is that I can use all of the generic zip codes all day long but there is just no signal. While in the final pages of the setup wizard it allowes a test of all of the channels that it is recieving, it recognizes all of the names of the channels but it will not show up in the little test block nor will it produce sound. I also tried to do throught the satalite set up but since i dont have a box or anything else it still does not work. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.

Chris

[hoglander]

Maybe the AFN uses NTSC not NTSC-J. Have you tried using a zip from the USA, because that would get you into the NTSC standard ?? The USA uses NTSC. Japan uses NTSC-J. However the Armed Forces Network, even though it is in Japan, might use the NTSC standard. Being on the other side of the World that's all I can come up with. Sorry that you are having problems and hope someone else can try to help too.

[chungsters]

Sounds like you have to do an manual set-up. Have the tuner search for the local signals and create a line up for you based on what it fines. You won't see a schedule since you don't have anything to line up withas far as zip code. I was in Okinawa and I remember that on base they have some form of cable tv (overpriced and vhs tapes sent in from the states). That was 10 years ago. Good luck and post in the troubleshooting forum next time.....Paul

[myktek]

AFN is a satellite service and if you don't have set top boxes in your room, then it's getting mapped to your cable channels. Your probably gonna have to perform a scanned lineup to get the channels, but you won't get any guide data.

[kklarson]

Just adding a few comments for anyone looking for AFN (Armed Forces Network, formerly AFRTS) guide/listing information.

In response to the above, AFN's OTA broadcast (single channel) is NTSC. Regardless of the guide, one should be able to scan for channels and find it.

For AFN satellite, use the zip code for March Air Reserve Base, 92518. If you select the satellite option, you will get only one AFN choice, Atlantic I believe. If you choose CABLE instead, you will get three AFN choices.

AFN March Air Reserve Base Atlantic March Air Reserve Base
AFN March Air Reserve Base Pacific March Air Reserve Base
AFNE Mannheim March Air Reserve Base

Choose Pacific for AFN satellite in Japan and the rest of WESTPAC. If you enter your APO/FPO zip code, you will probably only get a Satellite option and then only the Atlantic line-up. I've been using BTV with AFN satellite successfully in Japan for the past two years. Note that you'll need a compatible IR blaster.

(For those using XP Media Center Edition [MCE], the zip code 92518 and cable option also works with their guide.)