Hi Tom and the group...only in part Tom...You talk about the
Moonraker...well take a minute......the original Laser (Their spelling) was
introduced by Wilson Electronics Corp. back in the 70's and it was a Quad
reflector Yagi driven both vertically and horizontally with 5 elements in
each plane and that wasn't counting the reflector...the antenna was gamma
matched for both driven elements....The Super Laser 500 was basically the
same design but on a 38.4 foot boom. It also was a Laser Quad reflected
antenna but it had 7 yagi elements in each plane and they called it the 16
element Laser Beam.
The Moonraker antenna was a small 4 element array (they called it a 8
element) similar to other designs but it used all quad elements. If you
will recall the Moonraker used insulators to insulate the wires from the
aluminum elements on all 4 vertical and horizontal elements. Wilson's 4
element design that copied the Moonraker was Quad reflected and again Yagi
driven and directed elements, both vertical and horizontal an it was called
the Wilson 8 element Shooting Star. Most all Wilson designs incorporated a
Quad type reflector with varying designs of Yagi elements. Wilson used
tapered fiberglass inserts for the reflectors in order to insulate the
reflector as well. I still have their catalogue from the 70's with
original drawings if anyone is interested....BTW....Wilsons drawings carry
a date of 7-1-76....Interesting!
Their (Wilsons) antennas were called Quad-Yagi antennas in their
catalogue.....FYI....
73's....Lonnie (NT6B)
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At 12:47 AM 2/12/01 -0800, Tom Osborne wrote:
>Jan.E.Holm@telia.se wrote:
>
> > Now, if those razor whiz things are so good why not
> publish >the data? If I would have come up with something that good
> I >would have been proud to publish it.
>
>They are available commercially. CB'ers use them. Think they
>are called "Moonrakers" (nifty name huh?) They use quad
>reflectors and crossed directors.
>Tom W7WHY
>
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