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Billiam
1-Dec-2012, 2:10 AM
Not many outdoor FM antennas on the market these days. I want something that has good to excellent rejection of signals off the side and back. A unidirectional antenna is required for picking up a signal on a channel that has a co channel in the opposite direction.

Any recommendations? The Antennacraft FM6 gets pretty good reviews but I don't know if it has a good front to back ratio. And the same goes for the Winegard 6055.

GroundUrMast
1-Dec-2012, 4:08 AM
The Winegard HD6055P is advertised to have 7.0 to 8.6 dB forward gain and 18 to 20 dB F/B. http://www.winegarddirect.com/pdf/spec_HD6055P.pdf

The Antennacraft FM6 specs are less specific, simply claiming forward gain of 6.6 dB and 18.9 dB F/B. http://www.antennacraft.net/pdfs/FM6.pdf

Then there's the Wade C & J Series. http://www.wadeantenna.com/Wade/CSeries.pdf http://www.wadeantenna.com/Wade/jseriesyagi.pdf

djtpedersen
4-Feb-2019, 5:10 AM
I wonder if something like this might work:

https://www.amazon.ca/Channel-Master-Antenna-Range-CM3020/dp/B000SAKDLS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549260558&sr=8-1&keywords=Channel%2BMaster%2B100%2Bmiles&th=1

The low-VHF elements are angled towards the front, which could maybe help guard against co-channel interference? I haven't tried any antenna like this in the past so I'm not sure how well it would work in your case.

Hope this helps.