[TenTec] Bazooka antenna.. More than you wanted to know!

[Jim WA9YSD]

It is a wounder that these antenna companies has not made an HF yagi 
with a folded dipole or a DB antennas as the driven element.  They all
ways come up with some thing strange.  Must be too expensive.  The DB
and FD has the best coupling factors that equals 1 or 0.9.  A dipole is 0.1 . 
Now one would conclude that if you had wide spaced elements on a yagi
that the DB and FD would be used.  You think?

Strip the braid off of some RG8X and slide the center piece down the inside of a driven element of you favorite yagi and tune the driven element and see what happens.

So many people have computers these days, and antenna programs, that they just do not go out side and experiment.  The Wheel has already been invented folks.  It just needs a new groove to make it work better.

 Keep The Faith, Jim K9TF/WA9YSD