[BC] Re: lpfm question

[Tom]

Um...

Is the potted plant an indication that the Jampro antenna can do better 
in a high-foliage environment?

And I don't see anyone hanging from the ERI antenna, either....

here's a sidebar -

IF it weren't for wanting to go with circular polarity...

why not use a batwing / superturnstile antenna?

Seems like they're within a dB or so of true omni, and are definitely 
broadband enough if constructed right (I mean, if they handle an entire 
6 MHz TV channel with reasonable flatness...)

And they avoid the pattern distortion that a pole or side-mounting 
introduces on almost every other antenna, since the mounting pole is 
"inside" the antenna...

I do note that not having a significant vertical radiation pattern is a 
shortcoming...

RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
> It has always been that power is everything. Any problems you
> might have with reflections because of broad beam-width are
> usually secondary to the advantages of painting your power
> with a broad brush so-to-speak. I would much rather use
> a high power into a single-bay (designed for high power),
> than a lower power into a multiple-bay antenna if energy
> costs and hardware costs were not factored in.

-- 
Tom Spencer
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