Well, since this has become at least in part a referendum on YO, I'm going to toss my hat strongly into the YO ring. My experience with it has been very positive. Since you're talking about stacking
CAUTION -- second-hand information! I have a 259B, and have never personally seen or used an original 259. Having given that caveat -- a friend of mine has one, and he told me that one principle diff
I've been reading all the discussion on tower grounding over the past months with great interest, as I'm currently building a new home and will be erecting a US Tower TX-455 free-standing crank-up ne
Yaesu's $800 digital "solution" is a bad joke. Here's a tip: http://www.idiompress.com/rotorcard-dxa.html I know several people who have used this product, and they all love it. It is compatible with
This debate about under-the-house or around-the-house is moot in my case, as the house foundation, floor, and frame are already in place. So going under the slab is not an option. The concrete patios
To conclude this rejoinder, YO also works great under Windows 2000. I've been using it for a year that way. You can create a desktop shortcut for it in the standard fashion, and place that shortcut i
This seems counter-intuitive on the face of it. Raising a higher-frequency antenna N feet will produce a lower take-off angle (and generally better on-air results) than raising an identically designe
This is a really valid design, though, if what you want is to cover the local area pretty thoroughly on a low-frequency band like 40 or 75. No skip zone! It would be great for regional nets that cove
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a VHF propagation discussion board or mail reflector that is reasonably active and well-known. I've come across a couple small boards on various websites, but they ar
I want to run a "stack" of two 6el 6M yagis, one at 60 ft and one at 30 ft. Using a StackMatch to switch A/B/A+B, I can cover all radiation elevation angles between 3 degrees and 15 degrees within ab
Dan, This looks like the antenna called the "Hy-Gain 66DX" in my Yagi Optimizer 7.5. The dimensions you give are very close to, but not EXACTLY the same as, those given in the model. That said, the Y
To see how spacing affects take-off angle, install and run the YT (Yagi/Terrain) software that comes on the CD-ROM with your ARRL Antenna Book. Basically, stacking couples two or more yagis such that
In the Help file for YT v2.0 (probably not the very latest version, but anyway...), N6BV states, "YT's default values are a ground conductivity of 5 mS/m and a dielectric constant of 13, typical of a
Jim has articulated a very interesting approach to the question of covering the range of elevation angles for 6M. I like the idea of retaining the enlarged aperture of two yagis for the higher take-o
If you look at Mosley's website (http://www.mosley-electronics.com/faq.htm), they clearly use their split-dipole direct-feed approach as a marketing strategy -- simplicity, stability, etc. But any ra
Now what th' hell does CRS mean? I just can't remember stuff like that anymore... :-) Bill / W5WVO _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting
Julio, I don't know if there is a "definitive" answer, but just think about the physics of the matter. The rotor is equipped (if it is a heavy-duty type) with multiple races containing up to a hundre
I couldn't help but wonder at this snippet from an AP newswire article in this morning's paper regarding how the Santa Clarita wildfire in California supposedly started: "[The wildfire] was ignited w
Jim, this is the most spot-on comment I've seen on this thread. To paraphrase another poster to whom I responded a few days back, I think this is the "definitive" answer to the reply-to-list question
I remember reading somewhere recently -- and I'm going to research it now, as I'm planning to pour a UST foundation soon myself -- that you should NOT tie the bolts to the rebar, because you want the