WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

robbage wrote:Belling Lee (IEC 162-2) not N type but anyway... TV antenna worked for me as well as a starter. It would work a lot better if the antenna was rotated 90° so the elements are up and down. Not so good for TV

You mean vertically polarised robbage... TV antennae are more often than not horizontally polarised.

WPXZBP wrote:

robbage wrote:Belling Lee (IEC 162-2) not N type but anyway... TV antenna worked for me as well as a starter. It would work a lot better if the antenna was rotated 90° so the elements are up and down. Not so good for TV

You mean vertically polarised robbage... TV antennae are more often than not horizontally polarised.

Yes, I do Wes. I was going get into that in the next class You can lose more than 95% of the signal if you have the wrong orientation.
Any idea why TV is HP? I assume it's something to do with better propagation and less noise

Maybe easier to mou...no that doesn't work...errrr probably just started that way and too hard to change

robbage wrote:Belling Lee (IEC 162-2) not N type but anyway...

robbage... I am aware of the difference, and i do in fact have N type connectors installed for all of my TV antenna points.