On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:43:51 -0000, "Richard"
wrote:


"Howard" wrote in message
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On 5 Feb 2004 16:28:10 GMT, "Richard"
wrote:

Eric K. Weber wrote:
Greetings:

Radio Shack's antennas were manufactured by Winegard.....

see :
http://www.winegard.com/offair/prost...myagi.htm#6000

Is this what you had in mind?

Rgds:
Eric

Was Radioshacks offering a folded dipole arrangement?


Yes, it was just as shown in the Winegard site. Installed one at a
friends mountain cabin and he went from no FM reception to being able
to receive 3. Might not sound great, but for a cabin nestled in the
hills and 75 miles from the nearest broadcaster that isn't too bad.

That's not a folded dipole actually by the looks of it. It's a hertz
dipole. The element on neither dipole folds into a narrow rectangular
shape.
ie

dipole _________X__________

folded dipole ________X_________
|__________________|

In the picture it's hard to see so I changed my screen resolution and
it looked like it may be folded. Having installed the RatShack model
I can positively say that was a folded dipole. Being that Winegard
makes the antennas RatShack sells I made a leap of faith that the
picture just didn't show that detail well.

In any case, for under $20 it's a good performing omni.