Wacky old antennas

[Colly0410]

Very interesting thread. When I was in Florida a few years ago I was fascinated by the VHF/UHF TV antennas in the sticks away from the cities, I presume cable didn't get to them. Here in England most folks don't have cable (about 15/20% have cable) & most houses have a UHF TV antenna on the roof (mostly yagis) you never see VHF TV antennas anymore as VHF hasn't been used for TV (it was used for 405 lines) for over 40 years, most people changed to UHF (625 lines) in early the 70's as colour was never broadcast on VHF. When we did have VHF TV most antennas round here (Nottingham area) were H or X shaped for low band (band 1) & 5 to 9 element yagis for high band, (band 3) both were verticaly polarized, the 2 transmitters were just north of Birmingham about 45 miles away..