[TowerTalk] worlds biggest yagi

Nathaniel Lee n1bnc at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 28 10:03:26 EDT 2008


This is probably cheaper than mechanically rotating a rhombic!


> 
>  > He spent $500,000 chasing the last 3-4 dB.
> 
> He spent $500K having fun, which is what it's all about.  Some people 
> spend $100K on a cruise around the world. Some people spend $100K on a 
> Tesla roadster. Some people spend $100K on a ticket for a future ride 
> into space.
> 
> The cool thing about amateur radio is that everybody gets to try their 
> own ideas (it's not like there's a mob of angry shareholders and a board 
> of directors asking you whether you've gotten the best return on 
> investment here).  Were I doing the same project, I might have gone to 
> an all driven element approach and not bothered with the elevation axis. 
> However, that's just me.  Others might have spent a much smaller sum on 
> two antennas in a stack, and spent the rest of the money on buying land 
> for that stack in a different location.
> 
> 
> Jim, W6RMK
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