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Update and followup questions:
Thank you all for the advice above. After my initial posts ( a couple weeks ago) I did the following: I mounted the [dreaded] LAVA antenna on a pole in the attic, it's about 6' above the 2nd floor (ceiling) in the open space of our attic, pointed at about 120°. Ultimately I'd put this about 25'± off the ground.
I temporarily ran a 60' coax to the distribution panel for our network. I bought a signal amp from RS (I went looking for a different/better antenna to try from someplace easier to return, this was a shot in the dark). Well it worked! I put that in-line instead of the amp that came w/ the LAVA and my signals all jumped up at least 20-30% each, my troublesome channel above now came in just fine.
FF a couple weekends and I get around to cleaning up my wiring job, I ended up plugging in my 60' cable into the old incoming Sat. connections near the ant. in the attic. Admittedly this adds about 70-100' of wire and at least 2 more junctions. After that the PBS channels (high freq.) are pixellating some but the majors we really want are still fine.
Now last couple days we are getting brief but annoying pixellation and skipping on the majors, today reception is simply awful.
......I do plan on trying to eliminate 100'+ of wire and those couple of junctions this weekend. But can you all advise me why I might experience such a sudden worsening of signal? Tips, opinions, etc are welcome and appreciated.
Travis
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