[mdawdy]

Well Mick [he said to himself], it was a good idea - it just did not work.

I managed to get an identical antenna. Connect both antennae using a simple splitter/combiner and all of the close-to-home towers that do not care about the direction of my antenna still come in good [perhaps degraded slightly]; of course these are all the "loser" channels, the ones that no one would pay for in any case.

The two good channels that i would like to get each come in well with just their one antenna conected; connect both antennae using the splitter/combiner and both channels degrade to useless. One of these towers is slightly N of E; the other slightly S of W - so really ~180` apart.

Time to explore further the options in the link posted above.
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Did that. Looks like i would need to run an additional cable [from the attic down into a closet, thru a wall and along the baseboard, down to the basement via a cold air return, across the basement and up into the TV room] and an A/B switch. Not today anyway. Maybe another time.

Thank you for the help and info. It is appreciated. I'll post back if i come up with anything.