[mythtv-users] Antenna.. too good to be true?

[Ben Kamen]

On 2/7/2010 7:22 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> I'm not an antenna expert. That said, with gain antennas bigger is
> almost always better. This is physically smaller than your quad bow-tie
> so I doubt it will do any better. Any improvement would probably come
> from the low-noise amplifier, and there's no reason you couldn't just
> amplify your quad bow-tie instead.

You have to qualify that properly though.

Bigger at a given wavelength can be better. ;)

  -Ben

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