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Originally Posted by Jake V
I'd like an expert to comment about the possibility of aiming one panel due north and the other to 281 degrees for a shot at NBC affiliate WEAU-TV
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Pointing one panel north and one panel at WEAU has them pointing 80 degrees apart, or each 40 degrees from the frame. The documentation at
https://www.antennasdirect.com/cmss_...s/DB8E-TDS.pdf shows the gain with the elements at 30 degrees and 45 degrees, so splitting the panels north and at WEAU would be somewhere between the plot on page 4 and page 5. The gain on the channel of WEAU would be close to the blue line. The gain for WEAU with one panel pointed at it and one pointed north would be about 10dBi or 8dBd. On the other hand, if both panels of the DB8e were pointed at WEAU the gain would be around 14dBd. A difference of 6dB is doubling the signal twice over.
Given the trouble the OP seems to be having, splitting the DB8e’s aim and taking a 6dB loss in gain does not seem likely to work. However if the OP can safely get to the antenna to play with the aim, it probably would not hurt to try.