So I ended up moving my mast to the other end of the house. I had to run an extra 50ft of RG6. So I started with my C4V and being that WCSH was coming from the side lobe even at 95-100% signal I was still having issues. It was mainly audio (DD5.1 cutting out every 15 to 30 seconds). Once I got it with the main lobe WCSH6 was perfect but I started having issues with WPFO. Even though I was able to raise the antenna higher on this end I ended up 34 feet closer to a large tree which made WPFO/WCSH not work at the same time. I then replaced the C4 with the DB4e and all is well thanks to wider horizontal beam.I ended up aiming it at 10-12 degrees magnetic for the UHF and about 25 degrees magnetic for VHF. I lost VHF-hi channel 10 (lost around 15db SNR) for some reason as the Dipole has not changed! Thankfully there is a sister PBS re-broadcasting WCBB UHF channel 45 WMEA.
To anyone who reads this.... try not to place the antenna in a way it had to travel across your roof in any direction or you'll likely end up with multi-path issues no matter how strong your signal is.
Last edited by shoman94; 8-Mar-2016 at 3:07 AM.
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