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Thanks, GUM. Getting out of the attic would certainly improve my chances. I think I'll borrow a mast this weekend and look around for a good spot to locate the RS UHF for Eugene stations.
For the record, I drove north on my street this morning and noticed a pretty pronounced amount of static on the radio station I was tuned to, just as I passed a pole-mounted transformer a couple of houses away. I backed up and did a drive by a few more times and got the same result. My route is the same heading as the stations that are suddenly giving me problems, so the transformer is my wild guess of the day. I'll ask my RF tech friend to bring a meter down and poke around for noise there. If he finds anything, I'll call the utility, but I doubt Pacific Power cares much that I only hear 2 out of every 3 wisecracks Bart Simpson makes on Sunday nights. Still, it would be nice to have an explanation for the wild swings in the signal from FOX-14.
But John makes the good point that everything I want is available to the south, so with the right setup, I may be able to avoid rotating my antennas much at all.
Thanks! Don
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