Topband: 160 wire yagi

[Pete Parisetti]

Top contest station IR4T in Modena, Italy, has a two element wire beam
suspended from a water tower at 210'. Performance, as I remember from 15
years ago, was astounding - once we managed to break the US pileup on
4U1UN...

The design was the work of Maurizio, I4JMY, who I believe reads this list.
You may want to contact him directly for more information.

73/DX

Pete

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Craig Clark <jcclark at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:54:53 -0300
> From: "Jorge Diez - CX6VM" <cx6vm.jorge at adinet.com.uy>
> Subject: Topband: 160 wire yagi
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> Hello,
>
> Anyone tried a 160 mts wire yagi?
>
> Will appreciate some info about the performance and construction.
>
> I have a 120 ft tower and some big trees far apart, my idea is to do the
> wire yagi from the tower to the tree. The heights are not the same, will
> have a rope from from 120 ft high in the tower to 55 ft high in the tree
> where I will hang the elements, sloping to the ground.
>
> I have a tree in front of the tower and in the back, so I can do the yagi
> with the reflector lower than the driven element and the director, or
> viceversa, wich one is better?
>
> 73,
>
> Jorge
>
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
>
> Jorge
>
> If my mind had not completely addled, Denny Had, K8KXK, from Dentron build
> a
> two element bi-directional 160 beam and published it but I cannot find a
> reference to it on Google. I'll look later to see if it is in one of my
> antenna files.
>
> Craig
>
>
> Craig Clark K1QX
> Radioware
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>
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