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Originally Posted by ADTech
Amplifying a signal that is received from behind a stucco wall is the wrong way to go about it. Move the antenna. Amplifying a crappy signal will give you an amplified crappy signal.
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Well, you will likely be as surprised as I am to know that you are not quite correct. I finally got the antenna, put it up in my garage as planned and things worked fairly well for about a week and a half. Some stations would have some blockiness periodically and I figured it was simply because of what you said, that the stucco was blocking it. Turning it slightly often fixed that. So I decided to try moving it outside. I borrowed a ladder and got up on the top of my chimney outside, and held it up as high as I could, probably close to 30 ft. Oddly enough, no matter what way I turned it, or how I held it, it consistently got worse reception in the wide open air with nothing to block the signal as it did when I had it in the garage. I tried a few other places and it was the same everywhere, except for one spot. About 8 ft away from where I had it, just outside the garage door, it worked great there! But it's also in a spot where a thief could easily come and take it down and walk off with it. So I'm not putting it there. It would also be very visible being right in the very front of the house. Not a good spot for it. So, for right now, until I can think of anything better, I'm leaving it right where it is at. I get all the stations I want, fairly strongly too, with the exception of the two local PBS stations. Those are intermittent, no matter what direction I turn it. I do wonder if a different type of antenna in that same spot would work any better? In any case, it's really doing very well - surprisingly...