I'm about 30-35 miles from most of my main channel towers. Running three tv's no splitters 50 -100 feet of coax. I bought a new CM rotor and found it was junk, had plastic gears, made in China with lots of rotational slop. I returned that and found and old CM rotor on CL and took it all apart, cleaned it and regreased, it works great.
1) I started with a Lava HD2605 it was a cheap piece of junk, did get a few channels but nothing impressive.
2) Tried a Wineguard amplified Flatwave FL6550A mounted on pole 25' up with and old Channel Master Rotor. Although it got about 45 channels it depended on weather and wind conditions, often got pixelation randomly.
3) Next a Channel master CM-4228HD again on pole 25' with rotor and no amplifier. Got about 52 channels and most were good with little pixelation but could not run more than one tv as signal was not be strong enough. I bought a CM-7777 high gain preamplifier 30 db and this over powered the signal and I got nothing (returned). Next I tried the CM-3414 Ultra Mini 4 amplifier this proved to be the best yet with a solid 50 channels until the next day when the wind blew 25-40 mph and picture kept getting a lot of pixelation. So I took the antenna down and set it up in a second floor room facing the right direction. Works great on the closest stations but a little weak when I try to go out over 45 miles.
QUESTION? I'm thinking of buying a CM-7778 medium gain preamplifier 16 db that mounts right at the antenna. Do you think this will help or still over power the signal especially using in conjunction with the CM-3414 mini splitter that is 11.5 db out amp?
Thanks in advance