My reception needs dictate a high gain antenna to receive channel 22, everything else can be received with an indoor antenna, so everything I put up outside brings in my channel 8 and 20. Even a single bay hourglass with no reflector. From my experience, I estimate I'll need 16 to 17 dBi gain for consistent reception on channel 22. Currently I'm using a narrow band Hoverman from jedsoft.org scaled up in size for channel 22, but I was not careful with wire size and reflector element size, so I probably did not realize the estimated 16dBi+ gain of the design. This antenna works OK for me, but not quite as well as the UHF section from a CM-3020 that I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum. Specs from Channel Master shows about 14dBi gain on channels in the lower 20's for the 3020.
Thus my interest in what holl_ands himself describes as having performance "significantly better than ANY other 2-Bay Bowtie." Only thing is it's peak gain looks to be about channel 56-58 (maybe 731?MHz). So my plan is to scale all dimensions up by a factor of 1.4 to try and get the maximum gain closer to channel 22, plus double the number of bays to four instead of two.
What I'm hoping to attain is a 4-bay bowtie antenna with a gain of about 17dBi @ 521MHz. Do you guys agree that I'm on the right tract? Or do you have a better suggestion?
Thus my interest in what holl_ands himself describes as having performance "significantly better than ANY other 2-Bay Bowtie." Only thing is it's peak gain looks to be about channel 56-58 (maybe 731?MHz). So my plan is to scale all dimensions up by a factor of 1.4 to try and get the maximum gain closer to channel 22, plus double the number of bays to four instead of two.
What I'm hoping to attain is a 4-bay bowtie antenna with a gain of about 17dBi @ 521MHz. Do you guys agree that I'm on the right tract? Or do you have a better suggestion?