"0" OTA signal thru trees

[Brynk]

I am in a river valley about 50 miles from the signals and have trees in the way, but....

shouldn't I get some signal?
I can understand no picture, but the OTA signal indicator doesn't budge

I have a fringe area antenna on a 50 foot tower.

Thanks

[WinstonSmith]

I think it might depend on your tuner in terms of whether you get anything.

For example, I am getting upper 90s on all my OTAs now, but when I was messing with mine in the past, I never got a signal below 50. What I mean by that is that if my signal strenght wasn't above 50, it just didn't register at all (it gave me zero.)

Yours might be similar, or I could be way off.

[Fahtrim]

I am in a river valley about 50 miles from the signals and have trees in the way, but....

shouldn't I get some signal?
I can understand no picture, but the OTA signal indicator doesn't budge

I have a fringe area antenna on a 50 foot tower.

Thanks
Not sure what you mean by fringe area antenna. Did you go to antenna web . org?

Did you point it?

I live in a heavily wooded lot down a hill and get signals...... Just had to get a bigger antenna with a pre amp and dial it in.........

[Brynk]

"Not sure what you mean by fringe area antenna."

160 inches
57 elements
uhf - 100 miles
vhf - 190 miles


"Did you go to antenna web . org?

Did you point it?"

yes

I believe a pre amp does not help "pull" in a signal. It only "pushes" what you get thru the cabling
I only have 100 feet of coax and didn't think the pre amp was of any benefit.
Am I wrong?

My antenna is sufficient, it's pointed correctly and it's at a decent height.

My question deals with whether I'm having a problem with the HR10-250 input. I expected a problem with a picture, until I remove some trees, but I thought some signal would register on the software tester.

WS says he gets "0" signal unless it tests out to a minimum of 50, so that may be the problem

Thanks

[JimSpence]

I beleive that the signal meter isn't a true indication of received RF power, but uses an algorithm to determine signal quality.

[TyroneShoes]

...I believe a pre amp does not help "pull" in a signal. It only "pushes" what you get thru the cabling
I only have 100 feet of coax and didn't think the pre amp was of any benefit.
Am I wrong?...
That is a surprisingly accurate layman's explanation of what a preamp does.

Are there terrain obstructions between you and the towers? Typically, 50 miles by itself is not enough for curvature or signal attenuation alone to prevent reception. If you don't know, try a topo map from the internet.

[thumperxr69]

Are you able to receive plain SD signals???

T

[Brynk]

Are there terrain obstructions between you and the towers?

I'm in a river valley. That's why I put up the tower.
There are also two very thick Norway maples and a few oak trees in line of sight

The maples will come down, since they're weed trees
I'm hoping the remaining oaks will be sparse enuf to let a signal thru

[Brynk]

Are you able to receive plain SD signals???

T

Dunno

TV does not have an rf input and I haven't hooked up some other kind of receiver yet