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On Jun 12, 7:10 am, "Robert11" wrote:
Hi,


Do you think a dedicated, very directional, and tuned to the marine
freq's
would help, or am I just too far away ?

Sure, I did the same thing once. Except I'm 55-65 miles from the
gulf, instead of 20.. I built a 4 el yagi for 162 mhz.
Worked great, and I could hear boats that didn't exist on the
omni vertical.
MK


I used to pick up tons of stuff about 20 miles away with just a vertical
antenna at about 50 ft.
My experience with VHF/UHF in the attic has not been good. I think asphalt
shingles are pretty good RF absorbers at that frequency.

Jimmie