[ansky]

I live in NJ right outside NYC. I'm using a small outdoor antenna with a 75 ft coax run. I'm having problems receiving WNYW (Fox 5) which broadcasts on channel 44. The strange thing is I sometimes get this channel at full strength, but then it will suddenly drop in signal strength to the point where I can barely pull in the station at all. This seems to mostly happen during the day (mid morning to early evening).

I tried plugging the coax into 2 different TV's and I have the same problem with both, so we can rule out a TV/equipment problem. I also tried changing the twin lead (where the coax connects to the antenna) and that made no difference.

Another thing that makes this very strange is that I can take a small indoor antenna and plug it directly into the TV and that gives me pretty good reception, even when the outdoor antenna doesn't pull in anything. I'm just really stumped as to how I could go from 100% signal to almost nothing with the outdoor antenna.