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cjackson23
9-Feb-2015, 10:32 PM
I have great reception on calm days and consistently bad reception on windy days. Between my house and the towers I use (to the south) are a row of Douglas Firs (80ft tall and 150 ft away).

Antenna is mounted on the roof's highest point (other roof locations don't alleviate the problem.) Both of my TVs suffer from wind signal. The TV using the longer cable is affected more. An amplifier seemed to make it slightly worse.

Eagle Aspen EASDTV2BUHF 2-Bay UHF Outdoor Antenna amazon link (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GIT002/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01)

30 ft above ground
2 TVs 20 & 50 ft of coax

TV fool analysis (http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d2c15acea535adc)

Any ideas?
Thank you.

ADTech
9-Feb-2015, 11:34 PM
Your situation is very common where stations are on UHF. About 75% of all US full power stations are on UHF channels.

Three ideas, all guaranteed to work, nothing else has that guarantee.

http://stewartsequip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/stihl-MS290-300x101.jpg

http://www.carsbase.com/photo/Caterpillar-D8_mp330_spic_64585.jpg

http://kc8ovz.com/Madison%20Tower/DSC02774-2.JPG

Jake V
10-Feb-2015, 12:33 PM
The Eagle Aspen is a decent antenna and would be good for your TV Fool Report if there were no trees in the way. You might consider something more powerful, like a DB-8e aimed south.

But first you might post a picture looking south from the view of your antenna.

ADTech
10-Feb-2015, 1:10 PM
The Eagle Aspen is a decent antenna

It ought to be, since it's an exact Chinese-made knock-off of our original DB2.

Going to an 8-bay antenna usually helps somewhat, but the only sure cure is to have a tree-free signal path.

timgr
10-Feb-2015, 4:35 PM
Another possibility is to take over one of those trees as a mast.

http://files.qrz.com/e/k6qe/DSC01036.JPG

http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?p=46870

cjackson23
10-Feb-2015, 5:20 PM
The Eagle Aspen is a decent antenna and would be good for your TV Fool Report if there were no trees in the way. You might consider something more powerful, like a DB-8e aimed south.

But first you might post a picture looking south from the view of your antenna.
Thanks for the reply. Here is the Google street view (https://goo.gl/maps/9cY62) of what my antenna sees facing south.
http://i.imgur.com/4B8RoF8.jpg

cjackson23
10-Feb-2015, 5:31 PM
Another possibility is to take over one of those trees as a mast.

http://files.qrz.com/e/k6qe/DSC01036.JPG

http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?p=46870
I wondered about this, but thought it was impractical, since the antenna would be moving in the wind and the coax would be 150' long. I could actually do this. The antenna would still have the problematic trees in its "line of sight", so I'm skeptical. Does an antenna in a swaying tree actually work?