[TowerTalk] TV Reception

[Bill Aycock]

Fred-
My situation is- "local" TV (Huntsville) is 20 miles (airline) to the west,
Birmingham is about 90 miles south, Chattanooga is about 70 miles NE, and
Gadsden is about 50 miles SE. I get all these with one antenna, clean and
crisp, except for Birmingham, which is fuzzy.. No rotation.

I have a Radio Shack  Mid range UHF-VHF-FM antenna, picked up new in a
damaged box at a flea market- it is aimed to the west. it is on a ten ft RS
TV pipe (1.5 in) above the house. To see to the west (nearest TV stations)
it has to "look" through my wifes studio, 50 ft away.

I dont know why it works, but even off the back and sides, it's fairly good.

Let us know what you put up.- Bill- W4BSG

At 05:06 PM 03/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>OK, so it's not a ham radio question. But it is a tower question.
>
>I have a spare hardline going up my tower at the moment. I'd like to
>watch Channels 9, 10, 11, 12 and some UHF channels which are 40-75 miles
>away, in a variety of directions. I could mount something around the 75
>-85 foot level which would not interfere with anything. Should I get a
>discone? Whose? Or is there some homebrew antenna I should erect? I do
>not want to put up something that requires rotation.
>Ideas?
> 
>Fred Hopengarten K1VR                               
>fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu
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Bill Aycock   ---   Persimmon Hill 
 Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
 (in the N.E. corner of the State)
      W4BSG   --   Grid EM64vr
        baycock@HiWAAY.net
             w4bsg@arrl.net

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