Air Port Flight Path Interference

[Airport Flight Path]

I live in the Minneapolis (55419) and have access to stong signals. Unfortunately we're in the flight path of the MSP airport, and our digital signal gets distorted whenever a plane flys over head. I'm getting quite annoyed. Any advice on an antenna that can overcome such an interferance?

I currently am using an indoor analog rabbit ear antenna, but want to put the final solution in my attic to feed to all TV's in the house. We currently only have analog TV sets, with digital converter boxes, but expect to start making the switch to a HD set in the next year or two.

Thanks!

[tigerbangs]

Although you are only about 13 miles from the transmitters, signals are blocked by hills between you and the transmitters, making signals weaker than they otherwise might be. You are experiencing a form of multipath distortion as a result of TV signals arriving at the the antenna after a combination of bouncing off the planes in the flight-path and diffraction from hills. An attic antenna is not going to solve this problem for you because attic-mounting an antenna introduces additional multipath distortions from reflections inside the house. If you want to solve your problem, you will need to outside-mount an all-channel, highly-directional antenna mounted as high as you can manage that is clear of local obstructions. You can distribute the TV signal to multiple TV sets by using high-quality RG-6u coaxial cable and a signal splitter mounted in a location that will allow cabling to each TV set. It would probably be wise to consider a small distribution amplifier like a Winegard HDA-100 to overcome line losses inherent in splitting and distributing a TV signal to multiple TV sets.

Since your TV transmitters lie in the same general direction, you can use a single antenna without a rotator. I would suggest a Winegard HD-7082P or a Channel Master Crossfire 3679. I will provide some links so you can see the equipment and have an in stallation guide that will answer many of your questions.
http://www.channelmaster.com/
http://www.winegard.com/
http://www.pctinternational.com/channel ... lation.pdf