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majortom, you can see the major events in the evolution of the GH designs starting in Post #1 of this thread:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=81982

It helps people to understand the terminology better.

 

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Karyudo's TVFool info: http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showpost.php?p=1046174&postcount=308

I'm guessing that one of these Top Hats with NARODs should have a good chance at most of the SeaTac stations with your area being so close to the Burnaby South Slopes. but you may need to go the DBGH route and put it on a roof top or tower.

 

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Several posts have been moved over to the Can We Run 4nec2 on Linux? See WARNINGS here thread.

 

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Red-Green would have done the GH10n3 with duct tape

And then he'd get Harold to climb to the top of a barn with it during a lightning storm to test it out...

 

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Bug blocking is a good idea, especially for rural users - I took down a dead Ministate UFO antenna at a farm and it had been infested with a variety of winged and crawly critters over the years!

 

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A reminder about the great antenna metal-working thread here at our site:

Best Metals for Antennas: Performance, Soldering, Welding, Bending, Working

I've put some of the recent posts from this thread over there into that one for the benefit of all our readers.

 

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Claybuster, what 300ohm said is not a particular negative about +17dBi antennas per se, just a nod to the practical reality of how weak an inherent signal would be if only a +17dBi antenna was capable of picking it up at a given location on a given frequency while no lower performing antenna could. Personally I would never count on such a signal to be stable or reliable, even with such a superantenna, because that +17dBi rig is working on pulling in a signal that is so weak that it is at the very margins of what is possible in the real world. Darn those atmospheric and geographic effects on OTA signals! So, as a wise man once said:

if the signal ain't there, it just ain't there.

As for you particular reception situation, we won't dig into it in this thread since it is already covered in the other thread: http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=200545