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in city indoor antenna reception with dropouts.. VPI bricks under help.. WHY?

Posted by Elizabeth on February 11, 2010 at 12:53:03:
I live in an apt building on the second of 3 floors. I have NO direct line of sight to the transmitter towers. I get a lot of dropouts on over the air digital TV. (the signal strength fluctuates from 98% down to 40%/25% and back very quickly, and the TV screen goes blank under about 50%. Different times of day, and different indoor antenna positions just change which channels do it!!
I have tried adding major mass under the antenna (2 old VPI 'bricks: steel plates in a wooden box) and it helps stop the dropouts.
I want to know why?
I still loose a few channels depending on the antenna position, but at least the dropouts have gone away (for the most part)