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Trying to get both metros at the same time can get tricky. Trying to connect two antennas pointed in different directions will actually decrease the performance of each. Antenna gain is tightly related to how directional it is. When two antennas are connected together, the directionality goes down and thus the gain goes down. Or similarly, an "omni" antenna's gain is never very high because it lack directionality.

Your signals are not too weak, so it may be possible to make it work with two directional antennas, but the effective signal margin on all channels will go down. For the weaker stations (in the red), this might mean more pixellation or channel dropouts.

If you use a rotator, you'll get cleaner signals from whichever direction you point the antenna, however, you can only get one transmitter cluster at a time. An A-B switch would accomplish the same thing.



You don't need to worry about signal bounce from the lake. Anything that bounces off the lake will go off into space and will not be redirected at you.