[TowerTalk] Where does the element go?

[Pete Smith]

Maybe because someone - like Telrex, perhaps - started out doing them that way, and everyone else followed.  Force12 has always had all of theirs under the boom, and most new designs seem to follow that lead now.

73, Pete N4ZR
Happy Thanksgiving

At 10:42 PM 11/22/2006, Bill Turner wrote:
>Nearly all of the all-metal yagis I've seen have the elements mounted
>on top of the boom. I wonder why? 
>
>If they were mounted under the boom, gravity would be working to keep
>the boom in place instead of constantly trying to turn the boom over.
>This is such a common design I'm wondering what am I missing?
>
>Bill, W6WRT
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