RCBOB:
The reason why I asked to see a photo of your antenna is because I want to see how it is mounted.
Your tvfool report says "desert cove," so I looked for an antenna in the desert cove area and found this one taken by the car-mounted Google ground camera, but I don't know if it is your antenna:
The quality of the photo isn't very good, but it looks like the antenna is mounted for vertical polarization. TV signals are primarily transmitted with horizontal polarization, so I can't imagine why you would mount an antenna for vertical polarization when you are an ex-commo guy and RC enthusiast. That's why I asked to see a photo of your antenna.