03-05-2011, 04:13 AM
There's no way an indoor antenna will come close to the performance of a roof antenna. Perhaps you have crappy twinlead cable instead of coax, corroded connections, and/or the antenna is pointed incorrectly. Amplifiers will not help if you have a poor signal in the first place. The first thing I'd suggest is to figure out what antenna type you have and get it aimed correctly. I'm also wondering if it is the proper type, since "rods pointing out in every direction" doesn't sound right. For most TV antennas, there should be a long horizontal boom with rods sticking out sideways from the boom. The sideways rods should be shorter on one end (the end of the boom that should point at the station) and longer on the other end.