I’ll second that!! I used his YO program to design a 2m. FM RX yagi to kill off
some QRM from a particular contestant who wouldn’t stay off 146.55 long enough
to let me work people down in a different direction. This yagi was amazing
with a broad front lobe but 40db rejection in all other directions….with
vertical polarization! Everyone was skeptic but The late great W3EKT built it
forour team at K3MQH. It used a standard Cushcraft 2m yagi as I recall with a
bunch of elements from the factory cut a 1/4” shorter than the model and it was
an amazing performer. I used that and a simpleVertical on TX with a nice 1/2 kw
amp and it was amaaazing….. and frustrated the hell of the competition (K3YTL)
at the time. I think I probably still hold a record for the 2m sprint contest
at somethingOver 300 Qs in 4 hrs with nothing special propagation. A lot of
that was Fm Qs.
73, Ty K3MM
PS: his RiTTy program was way ahead ofIt’s time as well. Coupled with WF1Bs
software it wasUnbeatable and I may still hold the world low power RTTY Record
as P40MM from Carl’s old station doing2 radio contact interlacing before it was
popularized as 2BSIQ. It was heavily pirated and he gave up on it but it was
many years later before a few others even got close to its performance. It had
AFC and NET functions using AFSK as well as a lot of reverse processing now
found in GRITTY and maybe 2 tone.
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On Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 1:23 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA via TowerTalk
<towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
I want to publicly thank Brian for his fantastic antenna designs.
I built the “K6STI-5” 6m yagi back in the early 1990’s from a design
published by the UKSMG (UK 6M group) Optimised Six-Metre Yagi
<https://www.uksmg.org/content/yagi.htm> which I belonged to at the time.
Here’s a poor picture on my defunct website of it. IIRC I took an old Yagi
from a mfr unkown, disassembled it and completely rebuilt it to Brians spec.
th6_and_k6sti.jpg (576×436) <https://ve9aa.tripod.com/th6_and_k6sti.jpg>
(If link doesn’t work, google ve9aa.tripod.com and search site)
I had quite a smattering of 6m antennas back in those days, which is to say
“many” but it was pretty hard to beat for a single antenna w/ a superb
pattern. Easy to move the antenna 10 or 15degrees and get rid of pesky local
RFI here and there. This thing was amazing for a smallish yagi.
Later, I built 2 x 8el 6m yagis (stacked/BIP/BOP/U/L/B) using YO with
possibly some help AO(iirc). The (my) design is not perfect as I couldn’t
get the booms long enough (local material restrictions) but boy did I work
some fantastic DX with that array on CW and SSB. I had this array at 2
QTH’s. Pix are on my qrz.com site (near the bottom) for this array.
Thank you Brian for your designs and software! I wish I still had all of
these airborne and 6m CW DX was still a thing, but man I worked a lot of
juicy DX thanks to your antennas.
73 Mike VE9Antenna Antenna
Locator FN66 now, formerly FN65
NB, Canada
Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
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