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RE: More info required

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In Reply to: RE: More info required posted by jcmusic on March 30, 2008 at 14:16:36

Six elements is not much of an antenna. But, I would remove the balun on the antenna and use 300 ohm twin lead. I also assume the antenna is balanced without the elements grounded. Keep the twin lead at least one inch away from large metal areas such as aluminum siding. Going thru siding at less than an inch clearance is no problem. The 300 ohm wire is less lousy than coax plus using two balums also loses some signal strength. One other trick if you have the room is to loosen the antenna mast bolts and rotate the antenna 90 degrees. The FM signal may be vertically polarized vs horizontal.

If the twin lead does not work well enough, get a better antenna with more elements.

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RE: More info required - jcmusic 19:15:52 03/30/08 (3)
- RE: More info required - neff 19:48:37 03/30/08 (2)
  - RE: More info required - jcmusic 21:00:04 03/30/08 (1)
    - RE: More info required - neff 21:41:40 03/31/08 (0)
BTW - Neff 18:06:51 03/30/08 (1)
- RE: BTW - jcmusic 19:13:42 03/30/08 (0)

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