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I thank you for the replies rabbit73.

I've learned over the past year and half, that over the air television is not magic and it takes allot of effort to get good results with the stations available.

Truth be told, had I known how difficult it was to install and aim the ClearStream 2 and ClearStream 5 , I most likely would not have purchased them and had gone with a traditional antenna like the HBU33 or larger with a rotor. I had thought roof clearance was a factor as previously on reddit it was brought to my attention as a factor.

Also from reddit, I was criticised for having a ground loop situation for not bonding all ground rods together. I previously explained that I never bonded all ground rods together based on cost and practicality of achieving that. I figured with my current setup, I at least gave lightning somewhere to go other then inside my house in the event of a strike. I had originally planned to just run the coax from the ClearStream 2 into my attic and attach everything from there. But I changed my mind after considering how dangerous it was to do so.

I'm willing to accept the RCA pre-amp that I previously posted a link from Amazon was or became a dud when I attempted to use it several times with no real success last year. My local Menards sells them and I have 1 friend who swears by that pre-amp. But I really wasn't impressed with the build quality and think I really need to consider the pre-amp Towerguy recommended.

It's possible leaves from trees are blocking the signal from WCWF at this time of year. But normally I should at least see something from the televisions or either HDHomerun tuner at night. Currently there just isn't any signal to tune into at night. I hadn't payed close attention to the signal quality until earlier in August this summer. But I never experienced this last year of no signal over weak signal from last year.

So unless I'm told otherwise, I don't need to take down the J-arm and really need to consider trying another pre-amp before making the effort to redo everything. If all else fails, I will be content if I can't receive my local CW station as Hulu created and is offering add free service as of today.