Gedas, just curious. Is he using trees to support his wire elements? If
so, getting the wires all in the same plane and reasonably parallel has
to be a major problem. He must be a very determined and patient guy.
73, Joe
K2XX
Gedas wrote:
> My good friend Chuck, K9RM (EX k9rms) who lives near Indy has a 25 element
> wire yagi
> for 40m with a total boom length of around 1000'. I live north of him about
> 80 miles or so. A year or two ago Chuck and I were BS'ing and working DX
> out into the pacific and VK/ZL land and the results at reports between us
> were
> pretty dramatic. I was using a CC 2L at 85'. What I remember the most was
> that Chuck was able to copy and work fellas that were 100% invisible to me.
> He would hand out 5x9 reports to stations that were non-existant to me !
> His ability to reject broadcast QRM was really impressive. Lots of fun,
> that's for sure.
>
> Gedas, W8BYA
> http://gedas.cc
> http://www.w8bya.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] worlds biggest yagi
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>> More big yagi's...
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>> OK... I have to mention the 5EL Full-sized 40M Yagi
>> that Dale W6VSS (K6UA) built out on a 100 foot
>> Rohn 25 boom....
>>
>> "Beam me up Scotty!!"
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>>
>> 73, Don, W4WJ
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