[TowerTalk] homebrewing short yagis

Tim Makins, EI8IC ei8ic@eircom.net
Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:06:08 +0100


Thanks - that was very interesting.
Tim, EI8IC
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Sent: 02 October 2001 23:26
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] homebrewing short yagis


> In a message dated 10/2/01 11:13:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ei8ic@eircom.net writes:<<
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: <K7GCO@aol.com>
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>  Sent: 01 October 2001 22:05
>  Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] homebrewing short yagis
>  >One DE was a FD set for 100 ohms that was fed with balanced 100 ohm coax
> into a Johnson Match Box Tuner.  It works great on any beam  (Quad also).
> Would you mind saying a bit more about this, please ?  Tim, EI8IC
>   >>
> I'd be glad to and I thought you would never ask hi.  I normally enlarge
the
> font to make it easier to read further away from the screen.  TT E-mail
> usually reduces it to 10.  This came through at 14 font.
>
> A Folded Dipole (FD) can be made for differrent R's regardless what the R
is
>...................<big snip>....


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