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Best outdoor antenna???

Just picked up a Kenwood KT-917 and being that this is my first tuner ever, I am a bit in the dark here looking for a good antenna that could pick up stations located at two opposite directions. I live 10 miles outside of San Antonio,Tx. with Austin 80 miles on the opposite direction with great stations I prefer to ones in San Antonio. I have tried doing some research on antennas and thought of the "Yogi" but they are supposed to be very directional and rejects other stations except ones in it's pointed direction. Does this mean I will not hear the stations in my own city if I directed it towards Austin? If not the "yagi", then what is your suggestion?

One more question, Is it better to use the twin lead 300 ohm
connection or the 75 ohm single lead coaxial? I would truly
appreciate any input on these issues I can get from those of
you with the experience.

John
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fmpnd
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I was going to buy an APS-13 but ended up buying an MD-10FM antenna. The initial reason I did this was size and turning radius limitations on my roof. The MD-10FM is 142" and would be the biggest Yagi I could fit on my roof with the rotator. However, when I opened the MD-10, at least to me, the gauge of the aluminum and build quality looked better than the APS. To be fair to APS, the APS-13 I saw was a few years old so it may have changed since then. But the MD seems to have a very nice build quality.

I haven't hooked it up yet but anticipate doing so within the next few weeks. I am using the MD ST-2 whip antenna right now but want to pull in a classical station (that's about 80 miles) away a little better and with the ST-2 it is not real strong during the day. On most other stations the ST-2 is fine but who knows how much better it will get with the Yagi!
fmpnd
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Hey Doug! The guy who has the Rotel RHT-10 NEVER told me before he sent it to me that it is the 220 volt version. When he sent the Technical Manual via e-mail, it made me worry about two things: 1) will it be costly to convert to 100v? and 2) it looks like the 220v version may be set up and optimized for European stations. Do you have any ideas on this? Would Joesph Chow be able to help? If so, do you have Joseph's phone number? Or, do you have someone else in mind I could turn to?

Thanks again Doug, as always you are a great help to a relatively novice FM guy like me.

Frank

PS, I contacted you this way because Audiogon is having problems with AOL e-mails bouncing back and it wouldn't go through to your e-mail.
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