[ADTech]

While my earlier post was intended as a bit tongue-in-cheek, it does reflect my experience in dealing with tree-related problems both first-hand and with our customers.

I've tried everything in the toolbox (Yagis, panel, loops, amps, etc) and I've yet to find anything except those previous items that are sure to solve the problem (site selection).

When viewing the signals on a spectrum analyzer, that old Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme comes to mind. Once they've been shredded too much, nothing is going to fix the signals, so it's important to avoid the problem to the extent feasible.

There's really no need for a large all-channel antenna anyway, a 7-51 antenna would be all that is required. The only low-VHF station in the area is a Franken-FM channel that's going to be forced off the air in 2015 anyway. When that happens, the channel 2-6 spectrum will be completely empty in the DC/BMI area. There are no pending applications and the UHF broadcasters we've spoken TO (and we've spoken to many) who might be affected by the potential spectrum repack have universally referred to pigs flying before they'd move their operations to low-VHF.