"Allodoxaphobia" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:26:35 -0600, gb wrote:

Look for the Popular Electronic December 1971 issue -- George J. Monser
wrote the article of interest (page 40):
"Build a Mini-Pyramidal UHF TV Antenna".

He reports pulling in UHF stations
(in San Diego), that were 185 miles away.
Mr. Monser lived in the Santa Barbara, CA area at the time of the PE
article.

A point to be made: The entire propagation path betwix San Diego
and Santa Barbara is over salt water (AKA the Pacific Ocean.)
There's been many reports of Shack-On-The-Hip operators bringing
up repeaters in San Diego from Santa Barbara (and versy-vicey.)

Good tropo here is probably a bigger factor than good antenna(s).


Jonesy -

Yes

Once I found out where he lived .. that became apparent. Of course, he made
no mention of this
signal path in the PE article (impressing the teenager at that time of the
deep fringe coverage of the design).

:-)

Greg