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In Reply to: FM 2500 FM Antenna is awesome! posted by Cougar on November 24, 2018 at 13:11:30:
This brings back good memories.
If you are going to throw up a good directional array, then you should do it all the way, and slap a rotator on it.
Years ago, for FM OTA, we would run shielded 300 ohm from the array terminals non-stop to the receiver. No balun losses and a clean protected capture. That's the best arrangement, but impossible today. Next best would be an RG-11 drop, or if RG-6, make sure it's QS.
Best thing to keep that signal strong for more than a couple seasons is to glob the array pickups down heavily with dielectric grease to seal out the moisture. Same with any arrestor and any other exterior splices. Grease -- never caulks or tapes. The latter always eventually lets some precipitation in, and there it will stay. But if you want to tape over a grease-filled barrel connection, that is passable. 3M still makes an excellent self-fusing tape for this application.
Still, with the commercial OTA we now have around here in most of the US, you are often preparing the finest of china and tableware to dine on Golden Corral.
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Follow Ups
- RE: FM 2500 FM Antenna is awesome! - sgmlaw 10:54:07 12/11/18 (1)
- "then you should do it all the way, and slap a rotator on it." ? - Timbo in Oz 10:07:58 12/21/18 (0)
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