Dish OTA Antennae and Pixlization

With Dish, I no longer have one of my local stations (contract dispute issue).

Prior to this Dish installed one of their OTA antennae's, which I have not had to use until recently.

Some days are good others are BAD. Today, despite being a clear sunny day, is a bad day with alot of pixelation.

The TV sits in front of a large window, so the OTA is on the window sill. Moving around sometimes helps.

Should I get an amplifier? If the signal strength coming in is weak then as i'm told an amp wont magically pull in a better signal.

I went to this URL: Antenna Signal Prediction I put in my address and it spit out some kind of map with colored lines going in all directions. Doesn't seem like I can post a screen shot of that.

That same page with the map has this verbiage (which I don't know what means) The station in question for me is color coded YELLOW.

This table lists the stations predicted to be received at this location. It is sorted according to the color-coded antenna type needed to receive each station. The direction to each station is according to Magnetic North. Click on a station’s call sign to discover its sub-channels and current schedule

There is a legend and YELLOW states:

Yellow - Small multi-directional

I am clueless what all this stuff means. Should I get a pre-am for the OTA or plain amp etc etc

Thanks

 

Thanks, here is the result of the RabittEars site info.. No clue how to interpret. Station in question is WSB

RabbitEars.Info

p.s. what does repack mean?

pps I could have sworn dish told me that WSB (even though their station is few miles away) that their signal was the furthest away. Will try to confirm

 

Thanks.. I'm wondering... The OTA that Dish installed (RCA) is probably pretty cheap. Wondering if I should run out to Best Buy and get a decent one.

The one Dish has came with an adapter that connects into the DVR - which in turn allows me to see it in the guide and record things. It has an coax input which i'm sure most OTAs have

 

** UPDATE **

Looking around I found several sites that you plug in your address and it tells you all the stations etc. For this channel it faces south. My OTA is facing West. I changed the position and it seems to be better.

Curious why it has always been in the West and never an issue.. Oh well

Will monitor this for a bit

 

well it was working till the other day then just got unbearable to watch.
Moving it to the other window seems to have helped..> Will keep an eye out
BTW the antenna that Dish gave me (now that I looked behind the tv) has a coax into a small box which is the adapter that in turn goes into the Dish receiver. This adapter does appear to be powered (could be for the dish part and not antenna)

Gonna monitor this for now.

Thanks everyone

 

Thanks.. will consider it.
BUT it could be needed for the integration into dish receiver
For now it appears good, so not messing with it. Also has worked for many months so..