Weather effect on OTA Antenna

[bigdaddyflo]

Tonight while watching some channels OTA, The picture would rain out or the signal would not lock. The channels are fine in good weather. I shook the antenna and the pic would stay. Surrounding trees would move by the wind and the picture would be effected.

Am I crazy or does trees moving effect signal? What can I do besides cut down the neighbor's trees?

Thanks

Bigdaddyflo

 

[BrettTRay]

Rain has never really affected my OTA signal but I know when its windy and the trees are moving badly then it does affect it significantly. It will drop from very high to very low. Thats a sign that the trees are affecting the signal.

 

[gdarwin]

When I had the small antenna up the rain and trees moving would cause a loss if signal. Since putting up the high gain antenna - no problems.

 

[fayrich]

When it comes to digital, heavy overcast skies can definitely affect the signal. Especially if some of your digitals are low power as many of them are.

 

[errett]

If this is a digtal signal you are talking about and you had some good cloud cover, you were probably seeing multipath. The ATSC tuners now are better at handeling multipath but still struggle with it.

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[ralfyguy]

Mine is really weird. The worse the weather the better the signal...HONEST. I dunno why...

 

[BrettTRay]

Mine is really weird. The worse the weather the better the signal...HONEST. I dunno why...

Same way with me. Cloud cover and a warm temp produces tropo and I see alot better signal.

 

[KenSoren]

Mine is really weird. The worse the weather the better the signal...HONEST. I dunno why...

Are you talking UHF or VHF and Analog or Digital channels?

I know the digital UHF channels I get come and go with the weather - bad weather causes problems most times - but according to some web sites I should not be getting any LA stations at all but my CM fringe antenna and signal booster does the trick most of the time.

We are in Yucaipa, CA, 60 miles east of the major LA transmitters with some foot hills between us and the source, but all the analog channels come in well and three of the major LA networks make it most of the time with varying signal strength. Tonight is one of the bad nights since we have an approaching storm so ABC and NBC are coming in at 62 to 70 signal strenght on my 921 and cutting out at times, otherwise the signal comes and goes just like the analog signals did back int he 50's when I was a kid.

This is a good explanation of why I am interested in Dish local LA HD! Hope they come through soon!

Ken Sorensen
Yucaipa, CA