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Thank you for the TVFool report. Here is a rabbitears.info report based on my estimate of your location. It should have a more accurate list of channels.
https://www.rabbitears.info/searchma...study_id=20077
You can do your own report here. You might need to use coordinates.
https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php
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					Originally Posted by BrooklinOTA  I used an RCA TVPRAMP1R to take the signal from my antenna to the distribution block in the basement.
 - The TVPRAMP1Z brings around a 2.6 db signal loss immediately from the antenna.
 
 - It then boosts that signal to take it down the line.
 
 - But the signal that is boosted is the signal that already had 2.6 db of loss!
 
 Therefore the preamp is boosting an inferior signal....
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 It is not clear to me where you think that 2.6 dB loss is coming from.
Is it because there is a long  length of coax between the antenna and the input of the RCA preamp, or some other reason?