[BC] Re: Commercial Station Feeding A Commercial Translator

[Al Wolfe]

Paul,
    One trick that some cable engineers showed me for picking up a distant 
station was to use two yagi's aimed at the station of interest. One yagi is 
mounted a half wave farther from the tower that the other. The yagi's are to 
have about a wavelength or so vertical separation. The yagi closest to the 
tower has a one half wavelength longer feedline that the farthest one. The 
two antenna feedlines then go to a combiner/splitter and then to the 
receiver.

    They called this the "echelon" antenna configuration. Besides the almost 
three db gain over one antenna, you supposedly get about twenty db 
additional rejection from the rear. Also gain some space diversity.

    Have played with this idea a bit on two meter ham antenna system and it 
seems to work as described.

Al Wolfe,  retired, mostly
AKA K9SI


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> This commercial station in the midwest plains has 60KW at around 300 feet
> in the 95 to 96mhz range.
> I want to know how it can, safely and reliably, feed a commercial 
> translator
> over 90 miles away with any sort of useable signal?
>
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> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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