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[Towertalk] Re: OWA Yagis

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Subject: [Towertalk] Re: OWA Yagis
From: sm2ekm@telia.com (Jan Erik Holm)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:36:40 +0200
Gee, SORRY, well, not even EKM is perfect!!!

73, Jim

PS:  yes 15 needs a bit of OWA design, I made a decent
thing 6 el on 43 ft boom, works great.
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Bill Tippett wrote:

>KK9A:
>
>>Does anyone have any experience with the OWA design yagis.  Is there any
>>
>advantage other than low SWR and direct 50 ohm feed?
>
>        I looked at the OWA when I was considering retuning my
>KLM 610's.  I could see no significant gain or bandwidth difference 
>for the same boom length modeling both with YO7...and I got better F/B 
>by simply modifying the KLM dimensions (with dual driven elements).
>
>                                                73,  Bill  W4ZV
>
>P.S. To SM2EKM...he was asking about 15 meters, not 6 meters.
>



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