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Partial success. My wife was out of town today, so I had time to play with making an antenna. I decided on a placing two sets of dipoles cut to channel 16 from copper tubing into a collinear array with a wire mesh reflector.
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It was rough with 14-2 copper wire for the phasing lines, but it allowed me to lock WAGV in my attic with a solid signal quality/strength of about 87-90. (I chose the attic, because it's easy to get to.) No more wild fluctuation of the signal. This was a good sign as the array was cut for channel 16 instead of channel 51. When I tried it on WKHA (16) I got signal that would jump from 70 to about 85, fluctuate a little, and then drop back. Sometimes it would go up to 90, but no signal lock. With the fluctuation in signal quality, I guess I'm still getting interference.
When I get time I'm planning to modify this antenna or make a new one. What would be better in terms of eliminating multipath interference; to put a corner reflector on my two dipole antenna, or build a 2-high x 2-wide array with a flat reflector? If the 2x2 how would I run the phasing lines?
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