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Originally Posted by Coogs
I am able to pull in all of the available channels from Omaha during the night time hours. Is there anything I can do to get reception from these stations during the daylight hours?
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The antenna, amplifier, and tower that you have are doing very well for you. Changing anything probably won't help enough to matter.
Most of the Omaha stations are on UHF. You can consider this antenna stacking plan:
http://www.hdtvprimer.com/ANTENNAS/16bay.html Note that the newer 4228 HD has been redesigned and is not a good choice, use a pair of Winegard HD8800s instead.
I tried your location with a 300' tower. The signal strengths did not increase very much. A taller tower would help you only if there were trees, barns, or silos in the way.
I agree with the comments about interference. To eliminate that would take specially stacked high band VHF Yagis.
http://www.anarc.org/wtfda/stagger.pdf
The trick with stagger stacking is that it works best when designed for a single channel. For instance, you have co-channel interference on channels 8, 10, and 13. A compromise would be to optimize the stacking distance and feedline length for channel 10. Channels 8 and 13 would still work better than they do now, not not as well as 10. That would seem to apply more to the Lincoln stations and not the Omaha stations that you want to receive.