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colly0410 · 23rd Sep 2013, 1:01 pm

When I lived in Bestwood Village near Nottingham we had a strange looking aerial, it was like a bent H with the dipole & reflector at about 45 degrees, sort of like two V's sideways on, we didn't have a seperate band 3 aerial. How did it work? My theory, (probably wrong) on band 1 a slightly degraded bent dipole + reflector. On band 3 as it's about 1.5 wave-lengths long it acts as the front (or is it the back) of a rhombic aerial.... BTW it was a good FM aerial till the wind blew it down in the late 70's. (I was in the Army in Germany so couldn't salvage it.)

23rd Sep 2013, 1:01 pm	#37
colly0410 Pentode Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, UK. Posts: 223	Re: 405-Line VHF Aerials in 2013 When I lived in Bestwood Village near Nottingham we had a strange looking aerial, it was like a bent H with the dipole & reflector at about 45 degrees, sort of like two V's sideways on, we didn't have a seperate band 3 aerial. How did it work? My theory, (probably wrong) on band 1 a slightly degraded bent dipole + reflector. On band 3 as it's about 1.5 wave-lengths long it acts as the front (or is it the back) of a rhombic aerial.... BTW it was a good FM aerial till the wind blew it down in the late 70's. (I was in the Army in Germany so couldn't salvage it.)