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Originally Posted by Dave Loudin
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.
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Can you please clarify? Increasing the gain should improve reception in the center of the beamwidth, correct? The cost would be decreased reception for the other channels that currently come in just fine. So the question seems to be whether I can increase the gain enough along the center of the beamwidth to pick up 43 while not losing everything else. And that sounds like a trial and error situation to me (which I don't like the sound of).
I think I'll try moving it up and down to see if there is a hot spot.