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Old 7-Jul-2017, 12:41 AM   #30
rabbit73
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Will we need to something different for optimal reception???
We will need antennas rescaled for 14-36 for optimal reception, but I doubt we will see many made for the consumer market. Antenna manufacturers are not going to rescale and build antennas for the 14-36 UHF band unless they can make a profit doing it.

When the UHF band was cut to 14-51, very few manufacturers rescaled their antennas.

Regarding the comment by JoeAZ, yagis have a gain vs freq curve that slopes up, so they will have poor performance at the low end of UHF.

Anennas Direct didn't rescale the 91XG, but they did rescale their bowtie antennas for 14-51.

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