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Question about OTA HD Antennas/Reception

Slick5150

Diamond Member
I have Dish Network and a VIP722 box, but they don't have my local channels in HD over the satellites yet so I hooked up this antenna on my roof, connected to the Dish Netowrk box, scanned, and it picked up my channels.

Problem is, while they will show signal strength of between 80-95%, they all also randomly drop to 0% and the channel will cut out completely for a few seconds. Any ideas why this would be happening? What would cause the signal to drop from 90% to 0% and right back like that? Is it the antenna (do I need a different one?), or something else?

 
The antenna looks kinda crappy..I might try a different one. Read around and see what others are using. I find it weird that they include RG-59 wire with that antenna when the digital standard is RG-6
 
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