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Tree Thinning Weekend in S. Garland

JHBrandt

JHBrandt

A neighbor about 3 doors down cut down a tall tree this Saturday, noticeably improving my TV reception even though the tree had very little foliage (I think it was dying). Weird.

Monday my next-door neighbor in the other direction thinned out their huge tree a bit. I'm still trying to figure out if an antenna can see to the horizon through the new gaps in that tree - if so I just might be able to get KLTV/7 8)
 
I thought trees were supposed to grow slowly! It's only been 2 1/2 months, and one of my next-door neighbor's trees has grown wildly. I'd adjusted my antenna to take advantage of the new RF patterns that opened up after my earlier post, but yesterday I had to point it back where it was before.
 
Feel lucky that you aren't deep down in an RF hole like a friend of mine that lives in NW Garland, Firewheel area just north of GB Tollway. He cannot receive anything reliably OTA. Used to have to fight with Dish to get locals, to prove he couldn't even though his Zip code showed he should be able to. Back when the rules said if you could receive OTA you couldn't get those by satellite. How times have changed on that rule.
 
Megapsycle said:
Feel lucky that you aren't deep down in an RF hole like a friend of mine that lives in NW Garland, Firewheel area just north of GB Tollway. He cannot receive anything reliably OTA.
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If I were a few houses east I would be. I'm right on the lip of a valley surrounding a creek & greenway.

One good thing about Garland, though, is that they let you erect a really tall antenna if that's what it takes.

newsmark said:
JHBrandt, were you able to get anything extra before the tree grew?
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I haven't tried KTLV/7 yet but I'm still better off than I was before the first tree was cut down. The only channel the new tree cut off was K25FW, which is HSN and no big deal. Going back over old readings, I could see K25FW's strength slowly dropping since May when I first posted, until it finally hit the RF cliff and started breaking up. I would've thought KATA/50 and KHFD/51 would've suffered the most, but they've actually gotten stronger!
 
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