[TowerTalk] worlds biggest yagi

[Roger (K8RI)]

donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> You forgot to include the gaps between each boom segment in your calculation:
>
> Six 9 meter boom segments -- plus five 9 meter gaps  -- equals 99 meters
>
>   
Which doesn't quite figure either.  9 meters has 3 elements.  That would 
mean the gap between antennas is too wide by 4.5 meters as the element 
spacing for 3 would be 9/2=4.5  unless I made a mistake in my 
math....*again*

Roger (K8RI)
> 73!
> Frank
> W3LPL
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> ---- Original message ----
>   
>> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:43:14 -0400
>> From: n8de at thepoint.net  
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] worlds biggest yagi  
>> To: Gene Smar <ersmar at verizon.net>
>> Cc: TowerTalk at contesting.com, donovanf at starpower.net
>>
>> From that article:
>>
>> "Each of the six,
>> 75mm-diameter boom segments measures 9M long."
>>
>> How does 6 x 9 = 100 meters?
>>
>> Don
>> N8DE
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting Gene Smar <ersmar at verizon.net>:
>>
>>     
>>> TT:
>>>
>>>      Or there's this design from W6TSW back in the day for a 20M   
>>> Yagi with a boom 100 meters long:    
>>> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00215.html   
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>> 73 de
>>> Gene Smar  AD3F
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   From: donovanf at starpower.net
>>> Date: 2008/03/28 Fri PM 02:37:10 CDT
>>> To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] worlds biggest yagi
>>>
>>> W6KPC 36 element 20 meter stacked Yagis:
>>>
>>> http://db0spc.myvnc.com/df7pw/images/W6KPC-2.jpg
>>>
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