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I had an eight bay antenna mounted approximately 40 feet.
Not sure the antenna model.
4 bays pointing west
4 bays pointing SE
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The 8-bay antenna that allows you to aim each panel in a different direction sounds good in the advertising description, but it doesn't always work. The problem is that when the same signals from each section arrive at the combiner, they will interfere with each other if they don't arrive in phase (at the same instant). If you don't get the same channels when combined that you got when you tried with both panels aimed in the same direction at each different azimuth, then it doesn't work at your location.
ADTech, who works for Antennas Direct (they make the DB8e), and gives good advice here, says that it has the best chance of working when the panels are at right angles (90 degrees).