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Originally Posted by dprljackson
a larger antenna will have a narrower beam width which might improve the reception for 43 but make worse the reception for the other channels, is that correct? Looks like the Winegard has a beam width of somewhere around 50 degrees for most of the channels and a gain of about 2-3 dB more than the HBU33. Is that enough of an improvement to pick up this channel? And would I lose the others in the process?
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It only will make for worse reception if you are trying to use a fixed antenna. Antenna gain figures are for the peak gain in the center of the beamwidth only. Quoted beam widths are typically the range of angles where the antenna gain is within 6 dB of the peak gain. Beyond the quoted beamwidth, gain starts to fall off rapidly.