I have a serious question to all the engineers out there and antenna specialists.
Please look at the image below very closely and tell me if in all honesty if those antennas are capable of being used used in the VHF 88.1 to 107.9 MHz spectrum for FM broadcasting. Someone claims they are FM broadcast antennas.
Those antennas are mine and I built them. So I know what spectrum they are tuned for.
Sorry those images are not the greatest but I was not about to climb my roof for better picrtures than this. One antenna was accused of being a shopping cart with a diaper in it on the roof by someone who claims to know antennas quite well.
Your knowledge is important. Thanks!
Bruce.
MrBruce, I saw the fake news video by the person who accused you of being a pirate based solely on the speculation that if you have unusual antennas that alone serves as "proof" that you must be a pirate otherwise "why would you have strange antennas?"
It was the most terrible false journalism I've ever seen.
Also I know that this person has refused to correct his public personal attack against you even after having been told the real facts!
Doing experimental antenna design is a patriotic exercise in the art of invention and MrBruce is to be commended!
Looks like FTA TV antennas to me.
Looks like the old UHF/VHF TV antennas you would see when analog TV was popular. That screen in the back is a reflecter for UHF reception.
I like the way that antenna array looks!
I'd love to have something like that on my chimney even if it didn't do anything.
Hopefully, it's well grounded in the event of lightning.
That was one worry I had with my FTA antenna. I had a choice of putting it up high, or at chimney level, and I settled for chimney level (even though lightning is uncommon here in the Pacific Northwest). I might have gotten slightly better reception with a higher mount, but I slept better at night (and during storms).
I used a Terk (looked like a rectangular, shallow box) antenna, which isn`t nearly as impressive as MrBruce's antennas.
As we all recall from school a Turk is someone from Turkey, and I mean Turkey the country and not the bird, which we'll hear plenty about on Thanksgiving in the U.S.
"Terk" is a new one on me, so I gave a search and came up with
This might be more appropriate
Just a quick comment about the reflecter on the antenna to the right. It was built with about 200 feet of pure copper 12awg electrical wire and a few other objects to block strong backside signals and plus my neighbor's laptop was jamming some of the stations signals, so I was attempting to block that with the bottom solid panels, his apartment is below the stack. Heavy? hell yeah it is. That antenna is facing west towards Hartford CT, next bottom one towards Providence Rhode Island and the other top antenna points towards Boston MA. They are called 4-bay antennas. Tuned for UHF and channel 12 through 13, not long enough for VHF low reception. We have a digital VHF 9 here in town, WEDN Norwich, CT.
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Bruce.
I wonder just how much receive gain the antenna you built has? One like that must have at least 6-9 dbi. With enough gain back in the analog days it was possible to receive a station about 120 miles away depending on the output and line of sight path between you and the station you're trying to receive. Height helps as well.
As for the Turk antennas I remember two types of those. One was an Indoor type whereas it was a sort of folded dipole inside a rectangular box with a broadband amplifier connected between the antenna and your coax. The antenna was around $85 in price and worked quite nicely for apartment dwellers in a suburban area not too close to any local station as otherwise the amplifier would cause lots of images to come across your receiver.
The others were outdoor types whereas some were folded dipoles inside a box with an amplifier inside it as well. They did quite better than the indoor ones which is obvious as opposed to an indoor antenna.
Your antenna Mr. Bruce should be really good for DXing as well. I don’t know if it’s as easy to digital DX as it was with analog but it should still be possible.
Looks like a pirate radio operation to me. LOL!