On 01-24-98 Day Brown wrote... 
 
 DB> Are all your channels in the same direction? You might consider a 
 DB> rhombic antenna, each side 4-6 times the wavelength. 
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    Hi there Day ! 
 
    No they are all over the place. (320 deg of it) 
 
 DB> If the channels vary 15 degree or more in direction, you will need 
 DB> a rotateable, say yagi. 
    It's rotable (360 deg), top of the line, 16 feet from tip to tip. 
 
 
 
 DB> However, if the channels you want are all adjacent, 
 
    2,3,5,6,7,(8 & 8),9,10,11,12,17,20,22,24,27,29,30, 
    33,35,44,46,52,57 
 
    You'll notice that i have two different channel 8 
    one to the east (US) the other to the west (CDN). 
 
    Several of these channels are the same, from another 
    location. 
    2-9, 7-10, 11-46, 17-24, 20-33, 30-35 
    All those are canadian. 
 
    It's mostly the US channels i have problems with. 
    3, 5, 8, 27, 44, 52, 57 
 
 DB> How new is the antenna you now have? acid rain has aggrevated the 
 DB> rate of deterioration of the iodized aluminum coatings, and you 
 DB> may do well to take it down, brighten the rods with steel wool, 
 DB> and spray them with a sealer. Oxidized aluminum is not nearly as 
 DB> conductive as iodized. make the metal conductive, and coat it 
 DB> with a non conductive- the radio waves penetrate paint fine if 
 DB> there is no metallic pigment. 
 
    The antenna is about 15 years old, tefflon coated. 
    Ice is not supposed to stick to it, but after the 
    ice storm of the century we just had here, i had to 
    get up on the roof to break the ice away from it. 
    The pole was litteraly bending over by 30 deg.. 
 
    Salutations: Serge Brouillard 
                 Montreal, Canada 
 
 
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