I was able (finally) to get the new antenna mounted up on the roof. I was trying to make it work with the TV tuner but was able to get a station I wanted and tried moving it to tune in a different station and would flip back and realize I lost the first one. Disgruntled that it didn't look like this antenna was going to work for me, I decided test my theory about the TV tuner card inside my computer not working correctly.
I took a Dynex 32" LCD and hooked up the same coax without adjusting the antenna and was getting reception on many more channels then what I was getting with my PC tuner. After discovering this I then tried fine tuning the antenna position to get reception on all the channels that I wanted. Strangely enough when I adjusted the antenna I found that with it turned at about 12 degrees to magnetic north I was getting reception on everything that I wanted. My only guess as to why this works at 12 degrees is because the signal is bouncing off the hill to my north.
My problem is a few channels (WCHS comes in clear) are not coming in very well and are throwing pixel artifacts and brief cut outs. The antenna was fine until I locked it down into position which I must of just barely moved it. I've already resolved that my TV tuner in the computer is likely bad, however I'm wondering if an amplifier would be recommended for the weak signal or if that's going to cause me more problems by throwing the gain up too high on the channels I'm able to get in without artifacts.
Thanks for the help.
-John