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Old 11-Apr-2015, 7:41 PM   #8
rabbit73
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I guess there isn't anything we can do about it.
Maybe there is.

Your stronger TV signals are coming from Madison and Milwaukee, but your antenna would be facing in the general direction of the wind farm. The signals from Green Bay are weaker, but the rear of the antenna would be facing the wind farm which might reduce the interference from the turbine blades.

To have any chance, you would need a high gain antenna like the Winegard HD7698P, a good preamp like the Antennas Direct Juice or Channel Master 7777, and a single channel custom (expensive) bandstop filter for channel 43 from Tin Lee to reduce the overpowering signal from WWRS-TV. You would need to talk with one of their engineers on the phone and email him a copy of your tvfool report.

http://www.tinlee.com/MATV-Bandstops.php?active=3

The filter would go between the antenna and the input of the preamp.

If you would settle for just the UHF real channels (14-51), consider the Antennas Direct 91XG antenna instead.

You should try all three directions, because a high-gain antenna has a narrow beamwidth that might be better able to reject the interference from the wind farm, as long as it isn't aimed directly at it.

Raising the antenna height might help:
25 ft
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...f1f04bd6561916
50 ft:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...f1f005550300c4

Disclaimer:

No guarantees, but that is your best chance IMHO.
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