Signal loss from wind & tall trees
 

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

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

TV fool analysis

Any ideas?
Thank you.

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.

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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.

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.

Another possibility is to take over one of those trees as a mast.

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Thanks for the reply. Here is the Google street view of what my antenna sees facing south.
http://i.imgur.com/4B8RoF8.jpg

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?