I live in Hudsonville, MI
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Have a Royal 17d, a Winegard preamp 12dB I believe. Coax gets split and sent to three TVs Been running this for a few years now, recently reception has degraded. I can't pull in WZZM anymore (was always marginal). Explored and found the coax running from the antenna to the amp (mast mounted) was wet and had degraded, the center conductor did not come out of the fitting to the amp box! Replaced coax, took amp box apart and the terminal "seems" okay.
Anyway, I've been playing with for a few days and now not running the amp at all and it seems the same as before. I get 8, 3, and 35 (pbs, only a few miles away) pretty good on all 3 TVS but 13-- no. Just wondering if my amp has been dead for a while and not helping, should I get another, do other people struggle to pull in WZZM? I thought the amp just helped push the signal around all my coax and splitters and doesn't really help to "get a channel" so much? Surely 13 can't be this hard for everyone.
the antenna is huge, on my roof and in 3 sections, one pointed to 356 degrees (for WZZM) as indicated by antenna web (on roof with compass and careful tweaking, I'm even on a pretty high part of town, or so I thought. I want to watch some Michigan football!! the rest of the year I could care less. GO BLUE!