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Greetings Brian,
A likely culprit is K35LD-D licensed to Prineville. It has a signal that is trending weaker, but ought to be easily received with an outdoor antenna.
There is a second KATU translator that covered Bend specifically. K29CI doesn't appear on your TVfool report. From all data I could find this would be an analog signal.
All your other channels unchanged in reception? If so, this may be a translator issue on site. A call to KATU's engineering department might be a good step. K35LD-D is owned and operated by KATU. Remember be pleasant to them and ask them if there is service going on with that translator. You may be the one that red flags something is wrong and prompts a service call to determine the situation.
KATU's main switchboard # is 503-231-4222.
Remember these translators rebroadcast signals. That means two antennas - one to receive one to transmit. If ice or general weather damages the receive antenna at the transmission site, the translator could lose enough signal to cause the translator to shut itself off. I run into that often with K23HT-D. KLEW's RF 22 translator does this as well on more active weather days.
You need to pick a signal that's your bellweather. If it is always reliable and stable and you have an odd duck that's dropped out while everything else is normal. As ADTech said, it's not on your end.
Cheers.
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