antennas and trees

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DirecTV put up an omni-directional antenna at the time they installed the
oval HD dish, and succeeded in pulling in 0 OTH stations. The installer said
that the problem was trees and that I would not be able to get signal at my
house.

Is he right or would a better antenna solve the problem?

My house does have tall trees that block line of sight to the transmitters,
but I am surprised that they succeed in blocking out all of the signal.

Thanks.

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Go to antennaweb.org and type in your address. It should tell you what
antenna you need. It does take terrain into account. The program put my
house in the wrong spot on top of a hill, and using the program I moved my
house to the correct spot whihc is in a deep valley, and the antenna
requirements changed dramatically. "The trees" sounds like a lame excuse.

Here's what I have learned in trying to get better reception.

Many of the digital stations are on UHF, so you need a UHF antenna or a
combination VHF/UHF antenna. A directional antenna is much better than a
multi-directional antenna. Also you might try an amplifier at the TV before
going to the work of replacing the antenna. A preamplifier at the antenna is
better than an amplifier at the TV, but is much more work to install; it
would probably be better to get a better antenna to get an decent signal to
start with.

Hope it helps.
Noone



"Fred Bloggs" <SPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> DirecTV put up an omni-directional antenna at the time they installed the
> oval HD dish, and succeeded in pulling in 0 OTH stations. The installer
said
> that the problem was trees and that I would not be able to get signal at
my
> house.
>
> Is he right or would a better antenna solve the problem?
>
> My house does have tall trees that block line of sight to the
transmitters,
> but I am surprised that they succeed in blocking out all of the signal.
>
> Thanks.
>
>