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Old 1-May-2011, 5:17 PM   #6
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To clarify... the typical performance of a 2-way splitter is 3.5 dB loss. The theoretical gain from stacking two identical antennas will be 3 dB The net gain will be -0.5 dB. If the forward beam width is improved enough to reject interference, the net gain in signal strength may be of less concern.

The improvement in beam width is most often produced with horizontal (side-by-side) stacking.

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