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Old September 14th 04, 12:46 AM
Dave Platt
 
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In article p3q1d.87214$3l3.17942@attbi_s03,
G.Beat wrote:

Jim -

Let's get back to your query. The broadcast FM band (88MHz to 108 MHz) is
just above Broadcast TV Channel 6 ... so a TV yagi antenna designed for
low-band VHF TV (Channel 2 - 6) or specifically for Channel 6 will do quite
well.


As I understand it, the typical low-band or full-band VHF
television antenna is almost always a log-periodic, rather than a
Yagi. Yagi antennas having a substantial amount of gain are rather
narrow-banded, and won't cover the whole low-band VHF subband
properly. Log-periodics have only a limited amount of gain, but can
have a much wider bandwidth.

I think the only VHF-TV-band Yagi antennas I've seen were
single-channel types.

A full-VHF-band (channels 2 - 13) log-periodic antenna should work
very well on the broadcast FM band, unless it has a built-in FM trap
that cannot be defeated.

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