[BC] Re: High Gain vs Low Gain Antennas

[Glen Kippel]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:29 PM, <WBRadiolists at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Wow... so the better signal pattern is the 6-bay... but at ~1.5-2 miles
> from
> the tower, you have the equivalent signal as 53 miles away! Perhaps that
> explains why there is one local FM where I can hear "picket fencing" in an
> area
> where their tower is actually visible! (Merritt Parkway, thru Trumbull.)
>
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I would have to ask:  are there any people in that area 1.5-2 miles from the
transmitter?  If not, I wouldn't worry about it.  I also don't concern
myself with nulls that fall in uninhabited areas, or nulls that go up in the
air.  Go to the transmitter site, preferably to the radiation center, and
get a handle on the aperture your antenna has to reach.  Anything outside
that area is pretty much irrelevant.