[TowerTalk] How Many Elements in a Yagi?

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Johan Van de Velde wrote:
>Its commonly know that gain versus boomlength is fixed
>You ought to read DL6WU and DJ9BV's paper on this.
>
>each doubling of boomlength gives you just over 2 db extra gain.
>

But that is only for LONG yagis with typically >10 elements. It does not
apply to the (electrically) small yagis that are used on HF.

73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                          'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           http://www.ifwtech.demon.co.uk/g3sek

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