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Not the strongest of signals but the picture has been good
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With digital, all it takes is "just good enough" to have perfect or near perfect picture and sound quality. Digital cliff effect.
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How does winter weather affect TV reception?
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If your summertime reception was affected by seasonal foliage, that problem goes away until spring.
If you've been receiving sporadic out of market or distant reception during the summer, that usually goes away during the winter as the atmospheric enhancement effects subside and go away.
Realistically, reliable reception of the Indy stations at over 70 miles is probably going to be somewhere between extremely challenging and "ain't going to happen" even if you do everything right as far as antenna and amp selection, mounting site selection, and are able avoid any impairments in the immediate signal path out in front of the antenna. There are a lot of variables and the outcome depends on a number of things that may not be within your control such as buildings, trees, potential mounting height, willingness to deal with a very large antenna, and so forth. It's also going to depend on which of the Indy stations are going to carry the games that are of interest to you. Of course, and ESPN/NFL Network games won't be available with an antenna.
So, do you have a very clear line of sight to Indy? If not, you can expect reception to be negatively impacted.
Can you either handle a very large, 14' long antenna, or are you more in the camp that a smaller antenna with its lesser reception is the needed compromise?