Pointing the antenna correctly does make a difference

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Originally Posted by Username1

you have a bad spot in the wire, or noise from some wiring in the wall, and when you bring it closer to the wall, it gets interference. Your new tv does not use more signal, there is either something wrong with it, or it is not as sensitive as your previous setup.

I thought about the wall wiring at the time, and cut the power to those wires to see if it made any difference, but no change. The only thing I can figure what may be the cause, is our incoming antenna cable is buried inside the wall just behind the tv, and there could be some interference between it and the tv. I may try some more experimenting when I get the time, but right now we're getting pretty good signal from most of the main channels we watch. We also have a rather powerful tv tower within a few miles of us that could be causing some of this.