Jeff Matthews Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 21 hours ago, mr clean said: This chart shows how gain affects how wide in degrees a directional antennas pattern is . The higher the gain the more narrow the pattern. Interesting. Never knew that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Gee, I guess that beats a coat hanger. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 On 9/15/2019 at 7:34 PM, mr clean said: This chart shows how gain affects how wide in degrees a directional antennas pattern is . The higher the gain the more narrow the pattern. Good example... thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Here is a pic of my OTA antenna, next to my Dish dish. Purchased at my local Radio Shack, when they still existed. Oh yeah, and a small squadron of World War ll fighter planes, doing a 4th of July fly by. 👍 It is aimed at a mountain top about 45 miles away. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 12 minutes ago, Shiva said: Here is a pic of my OTA antenna, next to my Dish dish. Purchased at my local Radio Shack, when they still existed. Oh yeah, and a small squadron of World War ll fighter planes, doing a 4th of July fly by. 👍 It is aimed at a mountain top about 45 miles away. Dang, a squadron...cool Yes that is the typical Yagi I prefer... cool, thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Yeah, it was cool. I posted some of these pics here afterwards. Here they are performing a strafing run by my house. The sound of the old prop planes flying by was great. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 2 minutes ago, Shiva said: Yeah, it was cool. I posted some of these pics here afterwards. Here they are performing a strafing run by my house. The sound of the old prop planes flying by was great. Almost look like Avengers with those radial engines...😁😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 29 minutes ago, billybob said: Almost look like Avengers with those radial engines...😁😎 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_T-6_Texan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 minute ago, Edgar said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_T-6_Texan Thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Bought one of Dans antenna I like supporting small Business https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Ultimate-Outdoor-TV-Antenna/254113184974?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam S. Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Please report back the results when you get it, set up, etc. Curious to know your experience. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr clean Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 9 hours ago, joessportster said: Bought one of Dans antenna I like supporting small Business https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Ultimate-Outdoor-TV-Antenna/254113184974?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 I would think it will work well Joe! Like the other guy said let us know what you think. If anyone needs a real long distance antenna these are suppose to be very good.It has vhf also but it can work well for FM. https://www.dennystvantennare.com/hd-stacker-antenna-vhf-uhf-fm-digital-hdtv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 That stacking can really work for deep fringe. Popular out west and plain areas. Usually the idea was to double or even triple stack like antennas with combiners. A hobbyist in great Britain had some really cool but expensive examples awhile back... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron167 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 At the risk of totally embarrassing myself, I'll post this antenna I made over 10 years ago to experiment with. It's in daily use.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr clean Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 12 hours ago, joessportster said: Bought one of Dans antenna I like supporting small Business https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Ultimate-Outdoor-TV-Antenna/254113184974?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 That antenna is just like the first channel master 4221 model 1. The newer model 2 has a little different screen and is not suppose to be quite as good as the model 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, baron167 said: At the risk of totally embarrassing myself, I'll post this antenna I made over 10 years ago to experiment with. It's in daily use. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I made one of these years ago. it worked very well up in York Pa. but only for indoor use and had to be close to the TV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 I will report back when I get Dans Antenna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 9 minutes ago, baron167 said: At the risk of totally embarrassing myself, I'll post this antenna I made over 10 years ago to experiment with. It's in daily use. I really like the Minion tape. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron167 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 I made one of these years ago. it worked very well up in York Pa. but only for indoor use and had to be close to the TVI have boosters on it. It's far from the tv and can be taken outside, but no need to. My plan was to make one roof top many times larger, but I thought better of it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron167 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 I really like the Minion tape.Part of tweaking it, of course.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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