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Installed a 1/2 Wave Dipole today!

Awesome looking antenna and install man, good job!

I'd like to install something like this in my house, but my house doesn't exist yet. Just a 3 foot piece of wire currently lol
 
DaWoofer said:
It amazing that your signal strength remains high with 3 receivers connected. When I connect two to my outdoor antenna the signal drops considerably. You are running just one coax into the house right? It sure looks good. I've wondered about going vertical cause my Rat Shack FM antenna is horizontal and it seems like FM is geared for auto and their antennas are vertical and not horizontal. Why make the horizontal antennas? Which to choose is my question.
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Almost all large commercial stations use circular polarization. This, by definition, means both a horizontal or vertical antenna works equally well.
With a any antenna you must be aware of the reception pattern. A horizontal dipole has a figure 8 pattern, rejecting signals on the two sides.

Same pattern with a vertical dipole, but now these rejection nulls point straight up into the sky, and straight down into the ground. So it may be better at receiving multiple stations that lie at 90 degrees to each other from your location.

Bob
 
It's so nice...

Usually I spin vinyl Saturday nights. I was up really late just listening and now my hobby is turning toward vintage tunas! What is next??

Best thing I did for the whole system since I bought my Thorens!
 
Bob@FM said:
So it may be better at receiving multiple stations that lie at 90 degrees to each other from your location.

Bob
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Thats exactly what happened with this antenna. I am in Rochester NY, Toronto is north and Buffalo is west. 90 degress exactly and neither station could be heard here. Now they are both at S5. Interesting.
Thanks Bob!
 
With a new antenna, I'm hoping I can pull in Echoes from WNIU in DeKalb 60 miles away. Believe it or not, you can't get Echoes in Chicago. It's my favorite radio show.
 
Robie said:
With a new antenna, I'm hoping I can pull in Echoes from WNIU in DeKalb 60 miles away. Believe it or not, you can't get Echoes in Chicago. It's my favorite radio show.
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Subscribe to the online service and get a Logitech Squeezebox to input the signal to your system from the PC wireless network. Thats one way.
 
Robie said:
With a new antenna, I'm hoping I can pull in Echoes from WNIU in DeKalb 60 miles away. Believe it or not, you can't get Echoes in Chicago. It's my favorite radio show.
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I had a similar situation several years ago when I was trying to receive KTCU-FM 88.7 a low power college station in Fort Worth, about 40-50 miles away. Tried an omnidirectional turnstile-type antenna which has zero gain in all directions, like a vertical dipole. Finally settled with a Winegard beam antenna and went from noisy 1-3 sig with stereo cutting in-out to full scale "5" with full quieting and solid stereo.

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I wanted to revisit this thread to say that the antenna has performed flawlessly in its second winter. We have had a cold one for sure and reception has been beautiful from as far away as Cobourg Canada. Thats 100 miles from here across lake Ontario. The local NPR has done very well also even with their HD format. Tuners online were mainly my little Sony, the Yamaha T-80, Sony ST-J75 and the TU-717.

FM-DX Antenna is a great place to work with guys I can say this has been a beautiful antenna for sure.
 
Bob@FM said:
Almost all large commercial stations use circular polarization. This, by definition, means both a horizontal or vertical antenna works equally well.
With a any antenna you must be aware of the reception pattern. A horizontal dipole has a figure 8 pattern, rejecting signals on the two sides.

Same pattern with a vertical dipole, but now these rejection nulls point straight up into the sky, and straight down into the ground. So it may be better at receiving multiple stations that lie at 90 degrees to each other from your location.

Bob
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Yep, this is what E&M theory tells us.
 
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