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Sorry for the delay responding. Now that I am relocating to San Diego, the question is a moot point but it may help others in the future.
I live in a 2 story house. It is stucco and I am aware of the chicken wire wrapping but with holes that big, I did not know it would have such a detrimental effect on signal degradation (I am an electrical engineer with a big dislike if not hatred, towards microwaves and antenna theory)
In the line of sight from my home to mount whatever (??) where all these transmitters are located, is another 2 story house about 50 yards from my bac porch and about 6 feet higher elevation. But considering the footprint of its signal shadow, again, I did not think it was such a big deal.
All antennas I tried were powered except one. One of them (philips) has a dial to turn the power level up and down but it did not have any effect that I could tell. The non-powered antenna did not pick up anything other than KVCR public tv channels and a couple of chinese language broadcasts. Powered ones were better.
Locationwise, one antenna is sitting 6 feet inside from my back porch door, facing the house I mentioned aboive. Other antenna is located in the corner of the house farthest from the back porch, which is facing the mount with transmitters.
Again, as I said, I will not be pursuing this thread anymore as I only have a week or two left in this house but your answers might help another clueless soul like myself.
Thank you all for your wisdom.
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