Wes,
Since the longer rods are just collector or refractors the same as the dish is for the satellite signal, I just took the regular antenna we had and took off the ones that weren't close to anything we could receive way back then and then while at work I made the ones that I used. Way back in the early days when I got my FCC license we had to know all the formulas and stuff to figure out how to build and set up radio and TV stations. Now I can't even remember my name. Now with my very limited mind, I stick to stuff that is built to work. I even gave up on the Mars Robot I was going to build.
Ron
