A signal amplifier should only be used as a last resort when the television signal is weak. Even the best amplifier will still add some noise to the television signal it is amplifying/boosting ...
Although there are ways to get around this, a 2022 paper by Maja Škiljo and colleagues in Sensors covers an interesting way to make use of this signal attenuation property of changing moisture ...
Figure 1b. Effects of transceiver with 9.5 db of pre-emphasis. Pre-emphasis can help overcome high frequency attenuation, but does come with some side effects due to the boosted signal: Increased ...