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Air Traffic Monitoring => Feed Setup Pictures => Topic started by: completelydeck on March 18, 2009, 11:01:19 PM

Title: KHOU Setup.
Post by: completelydeck on March 18, 2009, 11:01:19 PM

Here it is, a custom j-pole made by www.jamespole.com  (highly recommended)

(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9633/img06191037x1555.th.jpg) (http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img06191037x1555.jpg)
(http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3656/img06201037x1555.th.jpg) (http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img06201037x1555.jpg)

Goes into my house by a hole I drilled and its on a Radioshack Pro scanner.

Title: Re: KHOU Setup.
Post by: EdGeneer on March 22, 2009, 12:31:25 AM

I am curious.... I always thought that the mast must be attached to a section at least a quarter wave distance below the quarter-wave section of the jpole...  I noticed yours extends all the way up inclusive of the quarter-wave section.

I think you may get a better reception if you extended that pole above the mast at least past the quarter-wave split.

I may be totally wrong, but I thought I read that the lower section of a jpole must be equal or greater than the quarter-wave length itself, and the mast must attach there below the quarter-wave breakout.

Heck, if anything, it will get it higher in the air :)

Title: Re: KHOU Setup.
Post by: completelydeck on January 25, 2010, 02:57:54 PM

I don't know what took me so long to do this, but I finally got to doing what EdGeener said and moved the antenna higher on the mast. I also cleaned the connections a little bit.