Signal Help for 37686

[Haney]

Hello,
I have recently put up an antenna and I am trying to get HD/DTV for free instead of paying the cable mafia..... I installed a Winegard MS-2002 omni-directional Antenna that has a built in pre-amplifier. I mounted the antenna on the ridge of the house and have 60 ft of high quality RG6 from my Antenna to the preamplifier and Another 40 feet to a Terk splitter. I split the signal there three ways with the runs to the TV's being only 30 feet or less. Not being very far (<40 miles) from my transmitters, I thought this would do the trick. Well, I have an AWESOME picture most of the time, but I am having problems with the signal dropping out, freezing and looking scrambled (pixeled like). Right now the only HDTV that I have is a new LG32L70. Watching the meter on the signal for different stations, it goes from Normal to Bad all at once and then back. What do I need to do? Any advice, comments, etc. would be most appreciated.

[tigerbangs]

Your antenna choice was an unfortunate one: You are blocked by at least 2 sets of hills in your location to all of your transmitters. The antenna that you chose has no ability to reject multipath, and you are experiencing symptoms of multipath distortion. The best thing that you can do is to replace your MS-2002 with a directional VHF-UHF antenna like a Winegard HD-7082p, a rotator and a preamplifier like a Winegard HDP-269. This will require rotating the antenna, as your stations lie in different directions, but you will eliminate dropouts. WCYB-DT will return to channel 5 after June 12, and you will need VHF low-band reception to pock it up reliably: the MS-2002 will NOT do that at all!