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In article <9208311937.AA01375@mml.ncsl.nist.gov> wilson@MML.NCSL.NIST.GOV (Ron Wilson) writes:
>Hi Netters,
>
>I need some advice.  Lately it seems that I have had a lot of interference 
>in the TV reception.  Most UHF stations get fuzzy and drift off and now 
>it's even happening to some network channels.  It's like the TV is trying 
>to pickup two channels at the same time.  I live on the outskirts of 
>Washington, DC and use a Channelmaster antenna with an amplifier.  The 

Your problem isn't that you aren't picking up the signals; you are.  It's
probably that you are picking up too many channels.  I'm in the Tidewater
VA area and have been getting a lot of troposcatter reception recently,
picking up FM broadcast stations as far away as New York City.

If that is indeed the problem, about the only thing you can do is to get
a directional antenna on a rotator, and try to pick out the station you
want.

Of course, you could have a bad connection somewhere, or an amplifier problem.
The strange propagation effects will go away in the winter; an antenna system
problem will stay around until you fix it.  (I know this isn't a terribly
rapid diagnostic method, but it's effective, and frankly there isn't much
good on TV anyway over the summer).
--scott