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Well darn, this has not been going nearly as well as I had hoped.
Sadly, the windows did not turn out to be low-e. I had hoped that that would turn out to be the case, and I had just been doing a very poor job placing the antenna in the bay windows. But no, the bay windows do seem to have the best reception indoors.
I picked up the 2v on Friday, and have spent a little bit of time with it strapped to a broom handle, going around upstairs as well as hanging out of the 3rd floor window with the antenna up closer to roof level.
The c2v is definitely an improvement over what I had been doing, but I'm still not "there". With this antenna, I can get 8 and 10 up into the 70's. I can even see that a channel exists on both 12 and 49, and if I fiddle around with antenna placement enough, I can even get them to be somewhat viewable! Of course, in doing so, I end up losing at least one other channel, most often channel 2, which I don't entirely even think makes sense if I'm understanding which frequencies are closer to each other.
I'm not entirely opposed to talking with the landlord about paying to put up an outdoor antenna on the roof. I'm about to sign a fresh two year lease, so at least I would get some return on the investment, regardless. But with the results I am currently getting I am unsure if its worth going down that road. I have spent a while looking at rooftops in the neighborhood, and don't see any antennas, just a lot of dishes hanging off the south sides of houses.
Does anyone have any further suggestions? It looks like 12 and 49 are the biggest problems for me. Getting them to even be sort of watchable seems to result in hurting the reception on other channels. Is the C2V not the optimal choice?
Also: To any Portland installers that may be reading this, if something turns out to be a winning combination, I may end up wanting to hire someone for an install!
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