[StephanieS]

Hello Mhouston,

A few things jump out of at me.

Before I begin, what signals do you wish to concentrate on? Raleigh? Greenville? Wilmington? Reorientating the antenna might be in order depending on which market you want to focus on. If you want flexibility of all of them, then a rotor becomes a discussion.

First, you have quite a few affiliates in different directions at your disposal. The preamp part # you provided is to a Winegard chromestar series preamp, but didn't specify which one. The part # was to a replacement power supply. In this situation, I'd be concerned with system overloading. If I were you, for testing purposes I'd remove the preamp from the line (both preamp and power inverter) and test reception to see if picture stabilizes. A 4228 ought to put plenty signal down 70' of coax to two TVs without a preamp. Without the preamp, orientate to magnetic 331 to gauge reception of Raleigh. This will confirm the 4228 is working well if you see the market's UHF signals with stability.

Additionally remove splitter if possible and test with lead coming straight off antenna into one TV.

The 4228 is a large UHF antenna designed to capture weak signals over a distance.

WRAL does not surprise me that it is hit/miss. It is substantially out of the 4228's beamwidth. Orientate 4228 to magnetic 331 to concentrate on Raleigh.

WYDO FOX RF 47 is at magnetic 73. With the 4228 at magnetic 85, you are nearing the outside of the 4228's reception beam.

Second, how is your line of sight around the antenna? Are you surrounded by trees?

Amplification with stronger signals present can actually degrade reception. First step is to establish if the antenna is fine by itself without the preamp so you have a stable performance baseline.

Then we take the next step which includes a discussion of high-VHF. You have an RF 10, 11 and 12 in your map. This requires a high-VHF (channels 7-13) specific antenna. Your 4228 is not designed to receive these.

Cheers.