I never used K6STI antennas but I did design all of my P40A monobanders
using YO and AO and I was pleased with their performance and bandwidth. YO
was amazingly fast. Brian's software was definitely very advanced for its
time!
John KK9A
Mike Smith VE9AA 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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