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Old 20-Jan-2015, 12:27 AM   #12
GroundUrMast
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Ideally, there would be nothing obstructing the path between the transmitting and receiving antennas. The elimination of a roof deck often improves the situation a great deal. Still, trees are a big deal when they move about.

In either case, wet roof/changing weather conditions or moving tree limbs, the signal quality is affected far more than the raw signal strength. If you have ever been in a place that has a significant echo problem, you can understand how making the sound louder does not resolve the echo problem... Your difficulty understanding spoken words in such a situation is not a problem of sound level (signal power) but sound quality.

Your tuner may be satisfied if you can eliminate just one source of signal quality impairment... Or, you may need to go all out, mount outdoors and get over/around the trees.
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