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Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna?
From: Jim Brown via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:48:37 -0700
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Our county expedition team for 7QP and CQP has made great use of a simple C3SS. W6GJB rebuilt three of them mechanically to make them easier to transport and rig on his contesting trailer. Glen and I also jointly designed a 2-el 20M Yagi with elements that fold to the boom for transport. I did the RF design using N6BV's YW software, playing with element lengths to optimize it for for forward gain and gain bandwidth for the 16 ft spacing that Glen said he could build. I managed to achieve a direct feedpoint Z around 50 ohms.

73, Jim K9YC

On 3/31/2026 9:13 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV via TowerTalk wrote:
The 25 year old K7LXC/N0AX data showed that even a *small*
interlaced tribander of that era (the Force 12 C3) significantly
outperformed both the TA33 and a 2 element Quad (Gem Quad).


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