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Old 22-Oct-2013, 2:16 PM   #8
stvcmty
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I read about 8 bay antennas and the flaws in the 8800 at hdtvprimer.com
Poor feed 8800 http://www.hdtvprimer.com/ANTENNAS/w8800.html
8-bay discussion http://www.hdtvprimer.com/ANTENNAS/TemporaryPage.html

I decided to try what HDTV Primer suggested and used two baluns, 2 equal lengths of coax, and a combiner to gang the 4 bays into an 8 bay rather than trying to make an impedance matching feed.

I used channel master baluns, 3’ lengths of coax, and a 1-2 splitter used in reverse as a 2-1 combiner. The result is higher signal quality, presumably from less multipath, and reliable reception of DC stations.

If I have some time in the future I may work on a feed system with twin lead, but for now what I have works quite well.
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