[Towertalk] Need Antenna Advice!

[K7LXC@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/13/02 1:01:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, stevek@jmr.com 
writes:

> Not according to their own published data...the StepIR changes element
>  length for optimization, but element spacing remains fixed and obviously
>  cannot be ideal over an octave of bandwidth.

    Well, that still trumps fixed element lengths. I've been told many times 
that element spacing in multiband yagis is a pretty small degradation but I'm 
not an antenna modeling guy. 

    Nonetheless the anecdotal on-the-air info on the StepIR is pretty 
exciting.

Cheers,
Steve   K7LXC
TOWER TECH