losing signal

[honycutt]

I hate to post when I know that the answer is somewhere on the page But I couldn't find anything close.

I live in Tallahassee Fla, Tree capital of the world. I have a winegard GS 2200 OTA atenna and alll the towers are within 23 miles. Pretty much all in same direction but I'm shooting through a bunch of trees. I get a good signal, 80 to 95% and then it drops to 60% and then not aquired for a second but goes right back to 95%.

Is there anything I can do to improve the signal?

Thanks

I hate trees

 

[Jim5506]

Your antenna is not directional enough and you are getting multi-path (reflections/Ghosts).

Currently all the channels are UHF except WTWC-DT which is channel 2 (UGH!), but they will be moving to channel 40 in Feb. 2009.

Get yourself a small UHF yagi antenna like the RS U75-R ($30) and point it at the stations you want to receive.

You might even get 24 and 32 off the back side.

 

[roashru]

honycutt, good luck, I stayed just east of Tallahassee (I-10, exit 217) about a year ago at a road travelcenter tested and found this place sucks for easy broadcast DTV reception. I found out I was in a fringe receive area for Tallahassee / Albany DMA even looked up the db coverage maps. good luck.

 

[boba]

Agree with Jim sounds like multipath, your Winegard Sensar III is not very directional receiving about equally well from front and back and a little rejection from the ends.