"Dave Platt" wrote in message
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In article p3q1d.87214$3l3.17942@attbi_s03,
G.Beat wrote:

Jim -

Let's get back to your query. The broadcast FM band (88MHz to 108 MHz) is
just above Broadcast TV Channel 6 ... so a TV yagi antenna designed for
low-band VHF TV (Channel 2 - 6) or specifically for Channel 6 will do
quite
well.

As I understand it, the typical low-band or full-band VHF
television antenna is almost always a log-periodic, rather than a
Yagi. Yagi antennas having a substantial amount of gain are rather
narrow-banded, and won't cover the whole low-band VHF subband
properly. Log-periodics have only a limited amount of gain, but can
have a much wider bandwidth.

I think the only VHF-TV-band Yagi antennas I've seen were
single-channel types.

A full-VHF-band (channels 2 - 13) log-periodic antenna should work
very well on the broadcast FM band, unless it has a built-in FM trap
that cannot be defeated.

--
Dave Platt

Dave -

I nice thing about growing up 60 to 90 miles from VHF & UHF TV stations (and
not that far from Burlington, IA where Winegard still makes the antennas -
and AntennaCraft is next door - where Radio Shack OEMs their antennas) is
that you learn about fringe and deep fringe TV antennas -- and the Radio/TV
stores tried ALL of the types mfg. by Winegard, Jerrold, ChannelMaster, etc.

When Jim mentioned a dipole, reflector and 12 directors ... I have seen this
on a long boom yagi (just like the 2 meter 11 to 18 element antennas) and as
a log-periodic.

A photo is worth a thousand words.

greg