Do large trees around your house pose a problem? null

Yes. A few trees shouldn't be a problem, but a lot of trees could be. I used to live two miles from transmission towers, with a large, heavily wooded area between my house and the towers. In analog days, we had decent reception without any external antenna. When they went to digital, no signals wade it through the trees. A small, non-amplified digital antenna made little difference. I think our analog signals were probably borderline usable, but you can do that with analog signals. Digital just drops out altogether once it falls below a certain point.

Nearby mountains pose more of a problem, but really thick trees close to antenna can affect it as well.

Yes, in the summertime when trees are full of leaves. I suspect in winter we will add 3-4 more channels because of a better line of sight signal.

Yes, large trees can interfere with the signal.

Trees and other structures yes.

we live in a highly wooded area & I had the same concern but turned out I didnt even have to install outdoors, only sits atop the set, so I would say as a general rule trees have little effect

I haven't had any problems with tree's degrading my signal and I have many around my property. Now a bad rain storm will degrade it some but no major issues there either, placement of the antenna is definitely key. Hope this helps

Trees will not affect signal, but digital signal is mostly "line-of-site", so walls and houses next door if between you and the broadcast antenna will. Mounting antenna higher is better.

Not at all. I have the antenna in my home ad it works great. But I have heard that the higher up you put the antenna, the better the reception. I am not having any problems.

My antenna in the downstairs is actually outside in my water heater closet. There are large trees and concrete walls and it comes in strong. The range is 50miles so i would check to see how far your stations broadcast from but i don't think it would be a problem at all. with trees.

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Yes. A few trees shouldn't be a problem, but a lot of trees could be. I used to live two miles from transmission towers, with a large, heavily wooded area between my house and the towers. In analog days, we had decent reception without any external antenna. When they went to digital, no signals wade it through the trees. A small, non-amplified digital antenna made little difference. I think our analog signals were probably borderline usable, but you can do that with analog signals. Digital just drops out altogether once it falls below a certain point.
Answered by Skippy 9 years ago
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Nearby mountains pose more of a problem, but really thick trees close to antenna can affect it as well.
Answered by Seanspin 9 years ago
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Yes, in the summertime when trees are full of leaves. I suspect in winter we will add 3-4 more channels because of a better line of sight signal.
Answered by Rambo1 9 years ago
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Yes, large trees can interfere with the signal.
Answered by Richard8655 9 years ago
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Trees and other structures yes.
Answered by DianaE 10 years ago
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we live in a highly wooded area & I had the same concern but turned out I didnt even have to install outdoors, only sits atop the set, so I would say as a general rule trees have little effect
Answered by Surfman 10 years ago
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I haven't had any problems with tree's degrading my signal and I have many around my property. Now a bad rain storm will degrade it some but no major issues there either, placement of the antenna is definitely key. Hope this helps
Answered by Zudnik 10 years ago
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Trees will not affect signal, but digital signal is mostly "line-of-site", so walls and houses next door if between you and the broadcast antenna will. Mounting antenna higher is better.
Answered by Arnellro 10 years ago
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Not at all. I have the antenna in my home ad it works great. But I have heard that the higher up you put the antenna, the better the reception. I am not having any problems.
Answered by linnie 10 years ago
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My antenna in the downstairs is actually outside in my water heater closet. There are large trees and concrete walls and it comes in strong. The range is 50miles so i would check to see how far your stations broadcast from but i don't think it would be a problem at all. with trees.
Answered by AfromOC 10 years ago
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