Thanks for the new report; it looks better. The terrain in your area is very uneven, so small changes in location and height make significant differences in your report.
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I will need to get on top of the house to check but I am sure I connected the 2 antennas with a combiner not a splitter. My knowledge of this topic is not at all technical so I am unsure exactly what a UVSJ is
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I'm just double checking. A splitter that is used to feed two TVs from one line can be used in reverse to combine two antennas. That doesn't always work because when the same signals from each antenna reach the combining point they can interfere with each other. A UVSJ is designed to combine a VHF antenna with a UHF antenna with low loss and keep the signals separated. UVSJ is short for UHF-VHF-Separator-Joiner, and it looks a lot like a splitter.
http://www.radioshack.com/vhf-uhf-go...r/1502586.html
http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=uvsj
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Is there a simple way for me to determine if the U8000 is modified to make it bi-directional as I had the antennas installed by a local electrician about 4 years ago and I simply do not know.
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In your previous thread there was a discussion about removing the reflector to make the antenna bi-directional to receive signals from the north and the south. I don't know whether you did that or not. You also considered aiming the unmodified antenna north for the weaker signals while receiving the stronger from Louisville from the back. The third alternative was to just aim south for Louisville, IIRC.
Moving U8000 reflector bars vertically
http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=2203
and this was your thread before that:
How do I improve reception
http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=2182
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The reason why I'm asking is because the best reception results are when the unmodified antenna is aimed directly at the transmitter.
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Open to suggestions to correct these issues and will appreciate any assistance?
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I'm not too sure we can correct your issues. You seem to be doing as well as can be expected considering your tvfool report has many weak signals that have terrain interference and trees probably growing into the signal paths. We just want to make sure that what you are doing is making the best use of the equipment you have. It is possible that if you replaced the U8000 with an Antennas Direct DB8E with both panels aimed in the same direction directly at the transmitter and mounted it a little higher there would be some improvement. Whether it would be worth the trouble and expense, I can't predict.
I think that when WBKI comes in "extremely well" your expectations are raised to unrealistic heights, because it is a Tropo signal that might be terrific at this time of year, but isn't likely to be consistent.
And look at what the WKPC signal has to get above on its way to you:
