[TowerTalk] new steppir yagis

[Al Williams]

The current plentiful interest in modifying current Steppir yagis is in sharp contrast to my posting of Oct 7 2004.  That posting suggested two possible modifications:
The first would be a two element mini monster (40-6or 10M) with the existing full length elements.  This antenna would have a wind load capablity enabling its use in crankup towers and would also simplify installing on the tower because the boom and elements could be installed at ground level by tilting the tower.

The other modification would be to add 75/80m capability to the existing Monster by using either loading coils or linear loading.  The comments to this idea was that it wouldn't work due to impedance problems.  It would seem that if this loading might work to enable shortening the existing monster yagi that it ought to work for adding 80/40 to the existing full size monster. ( or to a 2 element version)

k7puc