Wow! Coincidence!
I just decided to modify the very antenna haphazardly this very night
Anywho. What's funny is this thing does great for general uhf work but my favorite channel
in the whole wide airwaves is vhf according to the reference material I've found.
Aka the ant is tuned for about 300 mhz and the fav channel is much lower.
So... I decided to, without doing any wavelength calculations, to increase the reflector and
whisker size over 50%.
Considering I'm an e-tech and have lotsa ham radio experience I should be totally ashamed...
But I'm not.
I'm just a lazy tinker :-p
Anywho. Ant is now doing great on my fav channel and the rest down low but I've lost 2 of the
weaker ones up high.
I'm gonna run it as is for a day or two then trim down the whiskers an inch at a time to see
if I can find a happy medium.
I've saved the old reflectors and whiskers (bow ties) so I can revert back to original, properly tuned, instantly.
Yes the ant is quite directional 5th. But the broadcast ant farm is clustered southeast of me
so i can just aim once and pretty much go except for a couple few stations.
And directionality is an understatement
This thing is more accurate than a compass once I pulled up google maps of the ant broadcast towers
in relation to my house. It's pretty much dead on just by trial and error.
Within a few degrees of South East.