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Re: [TowerTalk] KLM 13-El 2M Beam - Need Documentation

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] KLM 13-El 2M Beam - Need Documentation
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:05:45 -0800
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Don't go to the trouble, Mike.  I printed the scans and they look great!

The only other things I'd like to see is plots of gain, and any mods 
that might be done to optimize it for the low end of the band.

73, Jim K9YC

On 11/28/2011 12:47 PM, Mike & Becca Krzystyniak wrote:
> I have a soft copy and will send it directly to your email.
>
> Mike K9MK
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> Subject: [TowerTalk] KLM 13-El 2M Beam - Need Documentation
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> One of the guys in our local ham club has given me this beam with a
> design that suggests that it was made by KLM.  There are two driven
> elements made of tubing, with a crossover between them and a short
> length of coiled teflon coax as a phasing line. The remaining elements
> are small diameter solid aluminum mounted with feed-thrus to the 22-foot
> boom, which appears to be about  1-inch to 1-1/4 inches.  The antenna is
> in excellent shape.
>
> I'm planning to use it for weak signal work on the lower 500 kHz of the
> band.  I'd like to know its specs, and what, if anything, I need to do
> to optimize it for that end of the band.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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