Welcome to the forum, tntnt44:
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it is working well the best numbers of strength i get are 72 percent on my abc , nbc and cbs
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With digital signals it's pretty much you get it or you don't. The signal strength numbers are relative. What we don't know is how close they are to the "Digital Cliff" where you get pixilation, picture freeze, and finally dropout. You can see how much margin you have before disaster by inserting an attenuator in the coax to find out what the lowest numbers are before you have problems.
If you have a lot of margin before disaster, you don't need a preamp. If you are close to the digital cliff, a preamp would help.
You can use several splitters in series as an attenuator. A 2-way splitter has a 3.5 dB loss. A 4-way is 7 dB loss. Or, you can buy some inexpensive attenuators, one variable, and some fixed.
https://www.antennasdirect.com/store...ttenuator.html
http://mjsales.net/collections/atten...ant=1083705673
•Attenuation values 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20dB (FAM)
click on 1 dB for other values; the up and down arrows are faint
http://www.3starinc.com/drop_in-line_attenuator.html
http://home-automation.smarthome.com...=&w=attenuator
Where are your antennas located?
Are there any trees in the signal path?
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I have aimed at 324 and its not my best I am about the 300 area to get my best numbers
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Should be 311 degrees magnetic by a real compass.
I see a possible problem; you have some strong local FM signals that might interfere with TV reception, especially with the C5 VHF-High signals 10 and 9 for ABC and PBS. You need an FM filter. See attachment 2.