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Are you getting a good picture on WOI Ch. 5 with the 8200 antenna?
You may need a pre amp with more gain and probably a lower noise floor for this situation. While the RCA pre amp is excellent and great for not overloading from strong signals, it lacks the punch for deep fringe situations such as yours.
I had a home about 40 mile east of KC a few years ago and I used the Winegard 7084 as well as the Antennacraft HBU 55 there. Both of those were able to give me some 2 edge signals below a positive NM. One was nearly minus 16 NM on UHF and thanks to the HBU 55 and a good pre amp I could always watch it. I was using the now defunct Winegard 8275 pre amp.
May want to look at something like the Kitztech units for this situation. I too had one Green signal on Ch. 19 while the rest in my TV Fool report were in Yellow or Red. I did not experience any overload issues using the 8275 pre amp even with the moderately strong Ch. 19. I think you can avoid an overload of the amp since it is only one channel and it is only moderately strong i.e. about the same as my Ch. 19 signal strength at that time.
Also, adding RG 11 in place of RG 6 may help if you have a cable run approaching 100 feet. Will give a half db or more of signal for you on many channels.
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