[TowerTalk] Home Brew 40m "shortie"

Chris Pedder chris at g3vbl.co.uk
Fri Jun 25 04:24:12 EDT 2004


At 02:35 25/06/2004, you wrote:
>The best shortie beam I remember was in ARRL literature in the early
>70's...may still have been in the 1980 ARRL antenna book.  The  3 el shortie
>that looks amazingly like the Cushcraft 2 el 40. The 3 elements were on a 36
>foot boom.  The reflector/driven element spacing was 23 feet or almost
>exactly the Cushcraft.  Shows the coils and cap hats too.

It's certainly in the 1980 ARRL Handbook but I don't see it in the, more 
recent, 1984 14th Edition Antenna Book.

Chris






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