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Originally Posted by beebo89
I'm sorry, I didn't explain my self well. I was using the 4 bowtie UHF as an example of wiring an antenna. All the searching I have done, the only example of how to wire the elements together were for a UHF antenna like that one.
Although all but one of of my local channels are UHF, I have no trouble catching them all with a simple dipole (except one UHF channel that I am not really worried about). The only channel I have trouble with is 10, which is real 10.
I may be way off because this is all new to me, but If one folded dipole is good, four must better. So I am making four of them, all for channel 10. Do I criss cross the wiring like lacing a shoe, do like the UHF antenna I mentioned, or some other setup?
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I guess I didn't make it very clear. You can not wire your 4 halfwave dipoles together like the fullwave dipoles in a UHF bowtie antenna and expect it to work properly.
Two stacked halfwave folded dipoles with a reflector will give you about the same gain as 4 stacked halfwave dipoles without a reflector; about 6 dB.
You asked my advice and I have given it.
It's your antenna, so you are free to wire it any way you want to wire it.
It doesn't matter to me.
Out of curiosity, I might try to build one like the example for my Channel 11 to prove or disprove the theory.
