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Old 18th Jun 2014, 10:01 am   #167
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Default Re: 405-Line VHF Aerials in 2013-2014

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Originally Posted by colourking View Post
What is the S shaped aerial?, is it one of those Circular/Halo/"All-rounder" - designed for horizontal polarisation - FM aerials (like these http://cpc.farnell.com/1/1/19673-aer...tiference.html) that someone bent into something to better pick up vertical polarised FM radio from different directions?
Yes the S-shaped 'thing' is a commercially produced Band-II FM radio aerial; I forget who the manufacturer is.

They can either be assembled S-shaped as shown, or I've seen some fitted horizontally with one half of the "S" reversed so it looks like a shiny aluminium-tube boomerang.
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