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As you can see I have high signal strengths but still have issues. My issues are that the channels cut in and out anytime there is any wind. I believe I currently have a Radioshack VU-75 antenna. It has lost one of the back vhf elements and another moves in the wind and crosses over other ones. A 3rd is bent down a good 6". There used to be a tree near it that hit it.
Now my biggest issue is that my house is about 15ft or so off the ground (1 story + chimney). Behind the house and all of my neighbors homes is a creek that is covered by a small forest which happens to be directly where I need to point my antenna to. These are tall birch and tulip poplar type trees. Now anytime the wind goes I start having some channels block. I added and RCA pre amp which helped get more channels and overload the 2 VHF channels sometimes (it was a UHF/VHF RCA preamp) which is overkill for my signal power but I thought lets try it.
Now what antenna can I replace this broken antenna with so that I can dump the pre amp hopefully and still get good signals. Currently I get signals at 80 - 100 but when the wind blows they jump to 0 for some channels on the UHF bands. The 2 VHF channels are overloaded so they actually will only go out from too strong a signal.
I have a 50 ft run to the basement and it goes through 2 grounding blocks and then gets split and goes another 30 feet or so to 2 TV's.
The Antennas I have been looking at based on reading are:
Antennas Direct C2-V
AntennaCraft HBU33
Winegard HD7694P
I am ok with a bigger antenna if needed but kind of like the C2v just because or how compact it is. Any and all help is appreciated. Could this just be a case of a really crappy radio shack antenna being the only problem? It used to work a little better but I only notice it being worse now because we cut the cord so it would be nice to make it a more reliable signal (Also I am only like 10 miles from the stations I want the most) 4,5,7,9,20,50,66
Thanks for the help in advance. I will also provide pictures of the tree's later if it helps.