Welcome! So the DIY antenna can be fun, but if your reception situation is less than ideal, it may not work as well as you might hope. The design of the bowtie makes it optimal for UHF, but not for VHF. Ch 27 is Real 10, which is VHF. That could be the issue or at least it's a factor in your reception.
What direction are you pointing your antenna? Looks like you have towers west and south of you. You may find a sweet spot somewhere in the SW direction.
What's your tree/building/etc situation when looking west to south? Anything that's in the way will degrade signal.
I think you could use something like the ANT-751 or HD7000R. Both will tune VHF/UHF. Being smaller helps when tuning to multiple locations like yours.
Forgot to add, make sure the sat coax is free of any sat equipment; excess switches, splitters, diplexers, complexers and flux capacitors. ;-) You want the shortest run you can manage from the antenna to TV with the least amount of splits possible. Distance, splits, etc all degrade signal strength. Sat stuff will just give you and your antenna a head ache.
Last edited by elmo; 20-Aug-2013 at 4:33 PM.
Reason: sat stuff
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