Gary, NA6O, wrote:
"Another promising LPDA design is the Band-Optimized LPDA by G0KSC of
InnovAntennas. There’s an interview with him in the Jan/Feb NCJ. The
article is
fairly enlightening. The upshot is that it’s not just a conventional
ultrawideband design, and he ends up with decent gain and F/B for the
bands of
interest. They sell a version made in the UK and, for better or worse, a
USA
version made by… MFJ… using HyGain hardware."
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"Fairly enlightening" would be about the most complimentary thing I
would say about it.
I love this quote from G0KSC in the article:
"We had a small radio - an IC-706 - and the first call with 80 W on 20
meters got us an LY2. So, it works ! That's a first, if you like"
For those of you old enough to remember, this rings like an old Gotham
antenna ad !
73,
Steve, N2IC
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