![]() I drilled a hole thought the top to feed the copper pipe through. I cut a vertical piece of the conduit at 28". I already had a length of 1" conduit left over from a previous project, so I opted to use that up. Over the weekend, I bought the copper tubing and PVC couplers. Once I get this antenna constructed, I'll be looking very forward to trying it out. Considering the Scatter Forager's gain was most likely a lot lower than this antenna, and the station was in and out when using it. Modeling this DIY antenna gave a value of around 7.5 to 8dB gain value across the VHF spectrum. One of the members on digitalhome.ca built a "clone" C5 and modeled this clone in 4nec software. It is a high gain VHF antenna, where the gain values are around 8dB or so for RF13. Commercially there is an antenna made by the company Antenna Direct called the C5. Even though it is low gain, I think I was right on the cusp of receiving it. The Scatter Forager is a low gain antenna. The Yagi used in attempt to receive CFTO has its own issues, but I decided a different antenna from the Scatter Forager is required to get CKCO. Since the transition though, this along with CFTO on RF9 have been the most problematic Canadian stations to receive. I've been using a Scatter Forager antenna in attempt to get CKCO RF13. ![]()
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