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I live close to an airport. When smaller planes fly over my house, I loose the DTV signal for a few seconds. Is there any was to resolve this? From Todd in Sanford, Florida<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hi, Todd, thanks for asking!<\/p>\n

In the old analog days, the effect you\u2019re seeing would have caused ghosting or vertical rolling of the picture and was referred to as \u201cairplane flutter\u201d interference or dynamic multi-path interference.<\/p>\n

With digital, we still can get the same signal problem when the broadcast signal bounces off the moving aircraft and arrives slightly out of time with the desired signal.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to the tuner to try to sort out the problem but, many times, the tuner can\u2019t handle the distorted signal.\u00a0 This is when you see the loss of your digital broadcast.<\/p>\n

From the antenna side, there\u2019s really only one thing that we can easily do that might remedy this problem:\u00a0 Select an antenna with the narrowest possible beam width in the vertical axis.\u00a0 An antenna such as our DB4 Antenna<\/a> (range: up to 55 miles) or the DB8 antenna<\/a> (range: 70 miles or more) has a more narrow reception window in the vertical direction than do many other antennas for UHF reception<\/a>.\u00a0 This helps to reduce the signal strength of the reflected signal off the aircraft while still receiving the desired signal from the towers.\u00a0 Hopefully, you can find an antenna aiming point that will allow this to be accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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