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If your shielding of the dish doesn’t solve the problem you could also try shielding the feedhorn. A cylinder made of hardware cloth might do the trick.

It goes between the dish and the 5 G cell tower.

The size of the dish would suggest it’s 23 GHz. Those links are usually less than one watt.

The Radome was torn.

It would look like a small backstop for a baseball diamond. The 1/10 wavelength rule is true, so 1/4” hardware cloth would be the material of choice. The size would be slightly larger than the area of your dish and feed horn.

It sounds interesting. I tried to google aircaster, and found the name in wide use already, including an ASI to IP multiplexer/QAM modulator by Blonder Tongue to a fixture to move heavy packages using compressed air.

I expect that ATSC 3.0 will work better than 1.0 on VHF. There are two reasons for this, 1. The characteristics of thousands of narrowband carriers if OFDM at low data rates will outperform 8 VSB on both impulse noise and coherent interference sources. 2. ATSC 3.0 includes time division...

The green line is the terrain between the transmitter on the left and your location on the right. The purple line starts at the transmitter and ends at the first mountain in the way. The dotted line is the direct path from the transmitter to you. In your case It drops below the earth’s...

Also, the ground on the coax, even on an indoor antenna, is there to prevent induced current from a nearby lightning strike, from damaging equipment.

I’m not familiar with the SDR software that you are using, but the pilot carrier on 54.310 suggests to me that it is an ATSC 1.0 station. This is E-skip season and channel 2 is the best channel for sporadic E. Based on the distance for E-skip, I’d guess KJWP in Wilmington, DE.

A combination of an extremely directional antenna along with the trees is killing you. The 4228 that you installed is a fine antenna for one, and only one, of the two directions that you can get. If you want both directions, try a bidirectional antenna.

That worked on my Hisense, thanks!

In my opinion it’s an exaggeration just to get you to watch the YouTube video.

My guess would be arcing in the start switches that is creating energy at 4 GHz that is reaching the C band feed horn. I say this because I’ve seen a small engine magneto cause a loss of all C band signals until the engine was turned off. Can you put the wires to the pump switches in conduit?

Tilting an antenna upwards can improve signal strengths if the antenna is mounted either too high or too low. But, it’s better to aim the antenna horizontally and find the heights that get the strongest signal. Note that an antenna tilted upwards has less ground gain than an antenna not tilted...