So I kind of gave up on this as the wife wasn't pressuring me for DVR capabilities on the MCE machine, but now that's a request so I'd like to try to get a reliable signal back into my MCE box.
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To compound issues I need to aim the antenna through some mature trees and a hill across my culdesac which also has a water tower on it, almost directly in the path from what can discern from a smartphone compass app (yes I know I'll be buying a real magnetic compass for this just to be accurate).
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Could the trees, hill and tower be causing multipath issues that the MCE tuner can't handle, but the Vizio can? Would putting a larger Yagi antenna (like a CM-3018) or a bowtie DB8 solve this issue?
I'm really kind of stuck with the tuner card as the research I've done doesn't clearly point to a better/more robust tuner card out there.
I could pick up a Silicon Dust HD Extend, but most reviewers don't talk about them vs internal cards as far as signal strength and I don't really need the network capabilities it offers as Plex solves that for me already.
Thoughts on a bigger antenna solving my issue?