Replaced Antenna Lost Channels

[beerdini]

This past summer I replaced the roof antenna of over 30 years in the home that I grew up in. The main problem that I had was that the antenna rotor seized up due to rust and lack of use and after a bad storm came through it turned the antenna so that we couldn't point it back to where it needed to be.

I replaced the antenna and rotor motor. When I first replaced the equipment I put the antenna at the top of the pole that it came with and mounted it in the rotor motor which I had fixed to the top of the old tripod. I got most of my channels plus the newer digital ones, but after reading that the rotor motor was only rated for a 6ft pole I cut the mast to 6 just under 6ft from the previous 10ft.

After reconnecting everything I've found that I lost a handful of my channels, and I lost the "local" CBS affiliate that used to come in nice in clear with the previous antenna prior to the digital conversion. The house is located in the 49445 ZIP code, and the CBS affiliate is WWMT out of Kalamazoo, MI which is about 60 miles away. I did purchase a signal amplifier and ran brand new cabling from the antenna to the amp, and new cables from the amp to the main TV, there are no splitters in the line at all.

Is there anything that I can try to do to get this channel to come in? It is showing with a 2edge connection when I run the data on the TVFool website. Thanks!

[Electron]

Do as the other question askers do and Do This -> http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=4. Use the Exact address to make the tvfool radar report. Make 2 radar reports , one at 25 foot height and one at 40 foot antenna height.

[beerdini]

Thank you for the quick reply. According to the maps I should start to get the channel that I'm looking for above 30ft. The good news is that it is an outdoor antenna, the bad news is that the rotor motor that I'm using isn't rated to use a mast tall enough to get me there.

When I was shopping for my rotor motor all that I found were ones that the mast sat on top of the rotator part. The motor that I replaced actually sat on top of the tripod and held the antenna mast to the side but allowed the mast to pass completely through the part that held it and allowed for a taller mast. Hopefully this makes sense. Do they make rotors like this anymore?

[ADTech]

In addition to the already requested information (which you've ignored), we also need to know what antenna you installed. For example, if you replaced an all-channel antenna with a UHF antenna, your reported symptom would be expected.