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In Reply to: RE: 1/2 wave folded dipole antenna posted by user510 on July 23, 2017 at 21:16:05:
..I was impressed enough with the strength of signals being received with this antenna that I decided to put it up on the wall. This is the best-so-far reception I've had in the room
While on the tripod I did find that I could point the antenna in a direction that resulted in greater signal strength. But the differences in signal strength seen on the meter was not great. Further, as I tried to note in my preceding post, I had to rotate the antenna quite a bit before finding these differences in signal strength. As it turns out, the wall mount shown in the above photo is in the general direction that receives the strongest for all of the stations I've got programmed into the tuner at the moment. My compass indicates this to be a north-west vector.
Hmmm. folded dipole receives stronger than a dipole.
Fwiw I can now get a signal from that Portland station I wanted to try for; KINK fm101.9. It comes in noisy, but decipherable. Clearly, this antenna has the most gain of any I've tried.
Here's a shot from above the listening chair.
I took down the 'T-shaped' dipole. It has been superceded. The 1/4-wave whip antenna is still up on top of the rack because I want to try one more mod for it. (reflector rods). More on that later.
-Steve
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