Radio Shack's FM turstile antenna [150-1639 or 15-1639]
 

Hi. Does Radioshack still manufacture Part No. 150-1639 or 15-1639, which
is an FM turnstile antenna? Looks unlikely to me.

http://support.radioshack.com/support_video/15785.htm


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Where can I buy this and HAM radio's in Canada???

"Richard" wrote in message
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Hi. Does Radioshack still manufacture Part No. 150-1639 or 15-1639, which
is an FM turnstile antenna? Looks unlikely to me.

http://support.radioshack.com/support_video/15785.htm


[Crossposted, but all replies/followups will go to alt.radio.broadcasting]

Greetings:

Radio Shack's antennas were manufactured by Winegard.....

see :
http://www.winegard.com/offair/prost...myagi.htm#6000

Is this what you had in mind?

Rgds:
Eric

"Richard" wrote in message
...
Hi. Does Radioshack still manufacture Part No. 150-1639 or 15-1639, which
is an FM turnstile antenna? Looks unlikely to me.

http://support.radioshack.com/support_video/15785.htm


[Crossposted, but all replies/followups will go to alt.radio.broadcasting]

Eric K. Weber wrote:
Greetings:

Radio Shack's antennas were manufactured by Winegard.....

see :
http://www.winegard.com/offair/prost...myagi.htm#6000

Is this what you had in mind?

Rgds:
Eric

Was Radioshacks offering a folded dipole arrangement?

On 5 Feb 2004 16:28:10 GMT, "Richard"
wrote:

Eric K. Weber wrote:
Greetings:

Radio Shack's antennas were manufactured by Winegard.....

see :
http://www.winegard.com/offair/prost...myagi.htm#6000

Is this what you had in mind?

Rgds:
Eric

Was Radioshacks offering a folded dipole arrangement?


Yes, it was just as shown in the Winegard site. Installed one at a
friends mountain cabin and he went from no FM reception to being able
to receive 3. Might not sound great, but for a cabin nestled in the
hills and 75 miles from the nearest broadcaster that isn't too bad.

"Howard" wrote in message
...
On 5 Feb 2004 16:28:10 GMT, "Richard"
wrote:

Eric K. Weber wrote:
Greetings:

Radio Shack's antennas were manufactured by Winegard.....

see :
http://www.winegard.com/offair/prost...myagi.htm#6000

Is this what you had in mind?

Rgds:
Eric

Was Radioshacks offering a folded dipole arrangement?


Yes, it was just as shown in the Winegard site. Installed one at a
friends mountain cabin and he went from no FM reception to being able
to receive 3. Might not sound great, but for a cabin nestled in the
hills and 75 miles from the nearest broadcaster that isn't too bad.

That's not a folded dipole actually by the looks of it. It's a hertz
dipole. The element on neither dipole folds into a narrow rectangular
shape.
ie

dipole _________X__________

folded dipole ________X_________
|__________________|

i guess it s 300ohm now instead of 50-75

"Richard" wrote in message
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"Howard" wrote in message
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On 5 Feb 2004 16:28:10 GMT, "Richard"
wrote:

Eric K. Weber wrote:
Greetings:

Radio Shack's antennas were manufactured by Winegard.....

see :
http://www.winegard.com/offair/prost...myagi.htm#6000

Is this what you had in mind?

Rgds:
Eric

Was Radioshacks offering a folded dipole arrangement?


Yes, it was just as shown in the Winegard site. Installed one at a
friends mountain cabin and he went from no FM reception to being able
to receive 3. Might not sound great, but for a cabin nestled in the
hills and 75 miles from the nearest broadcaster that isn't too bad.

That's not a folded dipole actually by the looks of it. It's a hertz
dipole. The element on neither dipole folds into a narrow rectangular
shape.
ie

dipole _________X__________

folded dipole ________X_________
|__________________|

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:43:51 -0000, "Richard"
wrote:


"Howard" wrote in message
.. .
On 5 Feb 2004 16:28:10 GMT, "Richard"
wrote:

Eric K. Weber wrote:
Greetings:

Radio Shack's antennas were manufactured by Winegard.....

see :
http://www.winegard.com/offair/prost...myagi.htm#6000

Is this what you had in mind?

Rgds:
Eric

Was Radioshacks offering a folded dipole arrangement?


Yes, it was just as shown in the Winegard site. Installed one at a
friends mountain cabin and he went from no FM reception to being able
to receive 3. Might not sound great, but for a cabin nestled in the
hills and 75 miles from the nearest broadcaster that isn't too bad.

That's not a folded dipole actually by the looks of it. It's a hertz
dipole. The element on neither dipole folds into a narrow rectangular
shape.
ie

dipole _________X__________

folded dipole ________X_________
|__________________|

In the picture it's hard to see so I changed my screen resolution and
it looked like it may be folded. Having installed the RatShack model
I can positively say that was a folded dipole. Being that Winegard
makes the antennas RatShack sells I made a leap of faith that the
picture just didn't show that detail well.

In any case, for under $20 it's a good performing omni.

"Eric K. Weber" wrote:

Greetings:

Radio Shack's antennas were manufactured by Winegard.....

see :
http://www.winegard.com/offair/prost...myagi.htm#6000

Is this what you had in mind?

Since a yagi and turnstile are by definition not the same, no.

http://www.winegard.com/offair/pdf/pr-6010.pdf

My recollection of a turnstile antenna is two folded dipoles at 90 degrees
to each other.
See URL:
http://www.qsl.net/wb8erj/turnstile_antenna.htm


A search of radio shack catalog does not show one nor is it in the manual
lookup section
However there is a Lindsay turnstile at URL:
http://www.lindsayelec.com/fm88-108.html


Easily found by using Google -- the searchers friend

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