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thanks for the reply.
i left out a lot of the story, which included buying a CS5 antenna. i don't remember the exact setup at the time, but that didn't work all that well either.
i will, however, hook it up again if that seems to be the best bet.
one other setup was to use (with combiner) the existing antenna in my attic to pick up the VHF spectrum. still not particularly successful.
as for the experiment, i have no signal strength measurement capability, but i did do this test: antenna directly to tv, no amp, no splitter. the quality improved slightly on one or two channels, but not a significant change overall. and the dropout is not limited to the VHF frequencies... in fact today, i was ch. surfing and caught KPXN (real ch 38) - perfect picture. later i looked again - no reception at all - black screen.
now you may understand why i am angryjoe.
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