A long Yagi can get nearly the gain of a Rhombic and you can rotate it a lot more ealily if you want to look elsewhere. Rhombics are great for point to point HF work.

Hi Art Thermo Meter, do U think much of the "FMfool" and "TVfool" website estimations. A lot of info pops up there. I have used them for various camping sites around the state, to find what can be heard and seen there. Here's a site that you can find the elevation for a location. You can touch the l...

That 8 ft parabolic dish has an apeture of something like 5.97 wavelengths, at mid UHF TV frequencies. The DB gain is proportional to that but I think you have to also factor in the focal length . An unholy marriage of optics and antenna theory. :D Anybody who can figure out the gain out there? Spea...

BI G TV Antennas A few decades ago another radio nut friend moved out of Detroit and built a hilltop house in eastern Livingston county. My family went out there to visit over a weekend and early one morning (before sunrise) we turned on his TV to see what was on the air. He had found the biggest an...

Speaking of Spell Check, does any one else watch the closed captions option on TV ? I have to turn down the Volume when watching TV since my Wife is overly sensitive (oh crap, I just turned 70 and can't hear worth crap anymore) so I turn on the closed caption options. Some times I am so amazed at th...

I carried a text pager through most of my service career, Information on the nature of the call , custoner info and times dispatched were stored until we completed the work and then we could delete it. This was available 24 hours a day if we were on 24 hour weekend call. The pagers were small and li...