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[QUOTE=&quot;Piggie, post: 20834, member: 2941&quot;]I missed that reading too fast. Actually that seems too high of gain for that antenna from my &quot;instinct&quot; of seeing antennas for seems like forever at this point If NEC software must have limitations.&nbsp; But don't get me wrong, not bad mouthing NEC software nor the RCA ANT751 both are good products in their niche. (I know almost nothing about the NEC software except the results of this antenna and the YA-1713).Remember in the Lava thread, Boom Length is king.&nbsp; The RCA ANT751 is 35.16 and the boom to mast is ubolt is about 2 inches. So probably at best the boom length is 33 inches. Or shorter if you don't count the UHF section.I can't see getting that much gain out of 0.55 wavelength boom (based on the middle of the band (195 MHz). The Y5-7-13 has a boom length of 0.99 wavelengths and the YA-6713 has 0.85 wavelengths.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both have fairly well documented gain in the 7 dbd range. I would lean toward the RCA ANT751 having closer to 3 to 5 dbd on high band.Still for someone in a little too weak for indoor and needs VHF also, in suburban level signal ranges it is a niche filling antenna.&nbsp; If one doesn't need end mounting the same gain should be achieved at half the price with a Winegard HD7000R[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Piggie, post: 20834, member: 2941"]I missed that reading too fast. Actually that seems too high of gain for that antenna from my "instinct" of seeing antennas for seems like forever at this point If NEC software must have limitations. But don't get me wrong, not bad mouthing NEC software nor the RCA ANT751 both are good products in their niche. (I know almost nothing about the NEC software except the results of this antenna and the YA-1713). Remember in the Lava thread, Boom Length is king. The RCA ANT751 is 35.16 and the boom to mast is ubolt is about 2 inches. So probably at best the boom length is 33 inches. Or shorter if you don't count the UHF section. I can't see getting that much gain out of 0.55 wavelength boom (based on the middle of the band (195 MHz). The Y5-7-13 has a boom length of 0.99 wavelengths and the YA-6713 has 0.85 wavelengths. Both have fairly well documented gain in the 7 dbd range. I would lean toward the RCA ANT751 having closer to 3 to 5 dbd on high band. Still for someone in a little too weak for indoor and needs VHF also, in suburban level signal ranges it is a niche filling antenna. If one doesn't need end mounting the same gain should be achieved at half the price with a Winegard HD7000R[/QUOTE]

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