Outdoor HD Tv Antenna

haste maker wrote:
We have a Winegard antenna...amplifier is turned on

You are out of luck, it WILL take a much bigger and better antenna to overcome the blockies and freezes.

While a lot of folks flock to those UHF antennas they are not all that great in many areas. The reason for this is Many broadcast markets are STILL served by the VHF "Hi" band which is old analog 7-13.. So not all stations are broadcasting on UHF.. Using a UHF only antenna pretty much eliminates any broadcaster that may be using the old analog 7-13 since UHF antennas are physically to small to have any "gain" at those frequencies..

You need to get a much bigger antenna in order to get one that has some gain on VHF and it will have more gain on UHF..

Once you have a better antenna, then you can add in a good quality antenna amp (two piece with the amp mounted at the antenna and the power supply at the TV). You need a low noise with high gain amp for this..

Then because the antenna has gain it will be more directional, so you will need to add a antenna rotor so you will not have to go back and forth to move the antenna since ATSC is a bit more touchy on direction..

Then you will need to find and remove any passive splitters.. Those things just eat up signal.. If you must have more than one TV then you will need to buy a good quality amplified coupler.. Those are not cheap..

Need good quality RG-6 coax, RG-59 has too much loss at UHF frequencies..

All told, you will be spending somewhere north of $400 before the dust settles so you can all of three or four stations.