Combining 2 TV antennas to improve reception from 2 directions
KILA-LD coverage map from rabbitears.info Many households find themselves between the coverage areas of VHF and UHF TV stations for two or more media markets - for instance, New York and Hartford/New Haven; Los Angeles and Bakersfield; Washington, DC and Baltimore, etc. However, the transmitters for those stations may be in cardinally opposite directions. Some of the highest-gain TV antennas are Yagis, with dozens of elements pointing in one direction. What if you want to maximize your gain from multiple antennas? CM-2020 100-mile Yagi, with 10 dB of UHF gain There's actually a very simple solutions - combine two antennas in a phasing harness , coupling both antennas with 2 sections of RG-6 cable with a Tee connector. The best way to do this would be to calculate quarter-wavelength lengths of cable before cutting, stripping, and crimping connectors on them. But it can work with a quick-and-dirty approach described below, done in my attic. 1byone 85-mile antenna with
