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Originally Posted by ADTech
Your amplifier is not overloading. The antenna you have is a fair UHF antenna and it's design and capabilities are generally appropriate for the "problem channel" that you have.
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While this is generally true, I'm not so sure that the antenna is not overloaded.
I count 20 TV stations between -32 dbm and -44 dbm average power with a peak to average ratio of 6 db. When these stations combine before the preamp their voltages add such that the peak voltage has an equivalent power in the vicinity of -4 dbm. (assuming zero loss through the walls and zero antenna gain) The amplifier in the Monoprice is rated at 20 db gain. That implies that the amplifier has to have an output 1 db compression point of at least +16 dbm to avoid overloading. There's no spec posted on the Monoprice amplifier, but I'd be very surprised if it is capable of +16 dbm undistorted output.