[BC] Repacking the TV band

[Robert Meuser]

Bowties have always been manufactured as a UHF antenna. Check the 
Channel Master site. They are preferred for DTV because of the wider 
beam width. BTW yagis are not usually broadband you may have them 
confused with log periodics.

On 6/29/12 10:40 AM, James B. Potter wrote:
> History of the 'bowtie' TV antenna: I once read that this ant was designed
> as a rhombic, and was popular on low-band TV until Messrs. Yagi and Uda
> invented the 'yagi' in Japan. The yagi could be broad-banded with many
> elements and was cheaper to manufacture.  I'm shocked to hear the bowtie
> antenna is even offered for sale, since they quit making them back in the
> mid-1950s.
>