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I looked up the spec sheet from Terk, and it makes no claims about antenna gain, but that's OK. According to your report, you've got tons of signal to spare. You don't need gain, you just need to cleanly catch the signals.
Not having seen this antenna for myself, I'm guessing that you see the diamond shapes by looking down on the antenna and not by looking at it from the front. The first thing to try is tilt the antenna 90 degrees forward so the diamonds actually face toward the walls/windows and not the ceiling. Orient the antenna so the diamonds face to the southwest. If you've got steady signals, then we're done.
I strongly suspect that this will not work to your satisfaction, that is getting a good lock on WFAA. If this is the case, replace the TV4 with the Terk HDTVi, which has rabbit ears for VHF (RF channels 8 and 9, virtual channels 8 and 52 for you) and a saw-tooth looking part for UHF (all your other channels). DO NOT BUY THE HDTVa, as that has a built-in amplifier which will be worse than useless for you - as in getting fewer channels. Orient the antenna to pick up everything but 8 and 9, then adjust the rabbit ears to finish the job.
Good luck!
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