[TowerTalk] Largest 20 M Beam

[Lane Zeitler]

This array was on the front cover of CQ a few years ago. Most impressive.

Lane
Ku7i


>From: K5RC at aol.com
>To: towertalk at contesting.com
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Largest 20 M Beam
>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:24:33 EST
>
>That's a no-brainer. WX7M in Wellington, NV, has a 16 element monoband 20M
>yagi on a 280' boom. It is fixed on Europe at 50'. It is made from 4" 
>irrigation
>pipe and 6 military surplus tubuar towers. Calculated gain is something 
>over
>19dbi.
>
>He has similar fixed long-boom arrays on 6 and 2 meters.
>
>Actually, I should have used the past tense. The 16 element array was 
>damaged
>and the 6 and 2 meter arrays wiped out in a 130 mph wind storm last 
>December
>that affected many of us in Northern Nevada.
>
>Tom, K5RC
>Virginia City NV
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