At 07:23 PM 9/27/01 -0500, Todd Dravland wrote:
>Karl,
>
>I have 2 of the Wilson SY-36 yagis, 3 trapped elements, 3 untrapped on a
>24 ft boom, with whats referred to as a beta match at the feedpoint
>consisting of 2 tubes and a shorting strap across the boom. The driven
>element is insulated from the boom, of course.
The CL-36's feed system was an odd arrangement that had two insulated wires
inside the driven element, apparently capacitatively coupled to the
element. We had one of these in a club station in downtown DC that worked
pretty well till it got blown off the top of an 8-story building in a storm.
73, Pete N4ZR
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