I"m half way between two transmission zones. So I wanted to build an antenna
to see if its worth upgrading beyond a Delhi bowtie without a reflector. I
have Buffalo 30 miles away and Toronto about the same in the opposite
direction north/south. Dont want to go to a rotor.

I bought a radio shack antenna preamp, 15-1109 to see if it will do
anything, waiting for the weather to improve to try it. Its not the best ,
but at least it will tell me something, before dropping a bigger buck.
thinking of a yagi or something more directtional or omi directional. I
need ideas.
so does anyone have a drawing where I can build an antenna where all the
elements are attached, I thought the dipole was the only one attached and
the directors were inactive?
I want to experiment before dropping the buck.
So I'm shooting for channel 57 which is north, but the rest of the channels
are in the 20s south out of Buffalo coming in crystal clear. This Delhi
boxtie is attached acouple inches from the vhf antenna, this is how who
installed put it..

I thought they were suppose to be attached like 3 apart.???
I have many questions?
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In article ,
"Ralph Mowery" wrote:

"Mikey" wrote in message
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As an experiment, if you're looking for something for both channels 57
and
69, cut your yagi for the frequency right between them, and it should
cover
both. #14 wire is relatively flimsy - are you using this indoors? If
not,
you will want to tape it down to a frame of some type (wood, pvc,
etc.).


Simple yagi antennas are relative narrow band antennas. They are not
too
effective for that broad of a frequency range. Also for many they are
more
like a low pass filter in that at frequencies below the designed one the
pattern is not too bad but going above the designed frequency the
pattern
falls apart very rapidly. If anything design the antenna for the
highest
frequency used.




This is not going to work. Yagi's are narrow band to begin with, lucky
if you can get 6 mhz bandwidth. Using thin #14 wire makes it impossible.

If you want to build this antenna, make it out of 1/2" copper water
pipe. Cut the reflector to channel 69; the directors and dipole to
channel 58.

Putting a low noise amplifier at the antenna is a good idea. But good
ones cost.

I missed the setup to your question, are both channels in the same
direction?