We've had our pool several years and have experienced only minor issues with maintaining it....until this year. Perhaps I've been lucky. But, this year is different. The water remains cloudy (white appearance, no green / brown) and the FC remains near zero and I cannot budge it.

Pool: 24' round, 48" deep, approx 12100 gallons
Above ground, vinyl lining, cartridge filter. pump and filter all seem to be working fine.
Use frogger for clorination, but has not been turned on yet this year (plan to turn on as soon as I get stable numbers ... and the new mineral resevoir arrives)

Pool is cloudy (white appearance). I can see (barely) half way down.

Hardess 300
TC 8
FC .1
pH 7.4
T Ak 200
CA 20

I took a water sample to the local pool store and the numbers they got were very similar to what I get.

How do I
(1) clear the cloudy water and
(2) get the FC to move up?

I've shocked it numerous times (8 times using 1lb bags of 68% calcium hypochlorite)

Any suggestions?