Antenna issues with Agile Modulator Help please

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My house is wood frame with a steel I beam in the middle of the basement running north and south. The BT is in my shop room in the back of the basement, the A/C metal trunk is above part of the ceiling. I am using a Radio Shack 5" color with a single stick antenna, I also have 3 other little hand held tv's with stick or cord antennas. In the other room I have a set of rabbit ears connected to a vcr that is connected to my big sony crt. (This one gets a picture but it is not very clear). If I go up to the main floor in the bedroom (above and just south of the shop) I can watch but it is not very clear. When I got home from work today, I taped the dipole to the wall in my shop (vertical) and it very clear if you are in the same room but the same issue everywhere else. Tomorrow I will change it to horizontal and look into changing the length (I built it based on Shango's video). And I will make sure that the transmitting antenna is pointed the same as the tv's. Seems that if you guys can get 3 houses from the antenna to work, maybe something is wrong with the BT? I guess I will be able to rule that out once I get the new one. (Next week)