In a message dated 4/4/2001 17:39:29 Eastern Daylight Time,
n4zr@contesting.com writes:
>
> The design has been in use by WA7LT, ex-W9LT for at least 25 years, and he
> told me personally that the antenna did not show directivity until he
> switched both.
That makes sense, confirms what I suspected and explains poor directivity of
my triangular parasitic array using Stackmatch for switching driven elements.
I am going to try simple relay swicthing of both shield and center conductor.
It would help if this kind of info was included with commercial product.
Thanks!
Yuri
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