Help with the results of changeover

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Last fall, at the suggestion of a local electronics shop near Baltimore, I purchased a Winegard HD4400 (no preamp, mounted in my wood frame attic) and was able to receive all of the local market HD channels - 2, 11, 13, 24, 45, 54 (but not the PBS channel 22 or 67). My zip is 21154 and I am 28 miles from TV hill. On a clear weather day, I can get Washinton DC and Philly, but it's not reliable and they are mostly duplicates, although one was a PBS signal.

After June 12, imagine my surprise that I no longer got 11 and 13. Now I find out that my antenna is UHF only, and 11 & 13 moved back to VHF. I was told that all of the VHF was shutting down, not just the low VHF.

Talking to 3 different vendors in the area, the consensus was that 11 & 13 are having problems throughout the city, not just out in the countryside and to just wait before moving to a new antenna. A search on 11's website shows they are transmitting at 5kW, (was 315kW) and 13 had a major blow-out of their transmitters at the switchover and should be back up to full power August 18.

I read in one of your strings, that there are products like a VHF only antenna and a combiner may be a possible solution to get 11 & 13 back. Is that possible, but are the rumors worth waiting out? I don't want to keep blowing money and they won't take the old one back.

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oops. I' sorry about my lack of navigational skills here. I'll try again.