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Mark Atanovich wrote:
Big Yagi: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=41 298 Is this BS or is this kind of gain at least theoretically possible? Probably more BS than truth! dB is a ratio. To simply quote 35 dB gain is 100% useless. It has to be gain compared to what? The images at the web site show a 13 element Yagi. Thirteen elements typically produce about 15.8 dBi or about 13.7 dBd. The higher gains quoted, 35 dB, can be achieved in BIG DISH antennas [100 foot diameter at 2 GHZ or 300 foot diameter at 800 MHz]. I suspect there is more marketing than science in the 36 dB gain figure. It may be, I say again may be, based on signal inside a house compared with a signal from an outside antenna at altitude. But 36 dB is an increase of 4000 times. That sounds like a stretch. |