What's Best Digital Antenna Upgrade ?

TC&Z wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:
If you have been having signal problems with an antenna that was previously working fine, I would say that your problem is with the coax cable or the connections on either end. Antennas do not wear out but the cable connections do. They let in moisture which eventually causes corrosion. To install a new antenna, without correcting the cable problems, is just a waste of money.

Very interesting information, much appreciated, (I posted this inquiry) perhaps it is not my antenna at all but something else. Here is my symptom, we will have been watching a show fine and then it just dies entirely, goes to black screen "LOST SIGNAL". We wait several minutes and no recovery. Yet when we change channels other channels work ok. Change back still dead. It is not poor signal with pixelated lines. We occasionally have this symptom and I rotate the antenna to tune slightly and it improves, or I determine that is the best it can be. Any ideas what to check?

Depends on where you are located and local weather patterns. Inversation layers moving around can greatly affect receiption and will exhibit exactly what you are talking about. Just because it happens on one channel and not others doesn't mean much unless you are familiar with with the various transmitter locations and radiation patterns of all. About the only thing you can do locally when this happens is to look at the signal strength of the problem station and see if it's dipped below acceptable levels (obviously it has) , but if there is an inversion involved you will often see the signal floating around a view bars one way or the other, OR it could simply appear or disappear when the sun goes down..
IF of are right on the Avalanche edge, the a Wingman and the SensarPro will help. The SensarPro can provide a little extra gain (yes there can also be too much), along with another +3db from the antenna, and the ability to more accurately point it where it belongs.

It's also POSSIBLE that, depending on the channel, that you are getting interference from an LED in the RV