[TowerTalk] [Antennas] Vertical beams

[Michael Josefsson]

Hi. You can turn any vertical dipole into a yagi if you put a reflector near it. One of the easier ones (I think) is the half-square beam (HSQ) which I have described at www.isy.liu.se/~mj/HAM/ANT It is quite OK to make 90 deg angles of the lower wires, it affects radiation very little.

ON4UN describes vertical loops in his book. Check out the loop-article on the aformentioned site as well. 

Despite what some people say I find that vertically polarised antennas work well.

GL
/Micke

On 22 Feb 2010, at 18:40, r miles wrote:

> I want to web search them. Anyone know the exact name they go by? The ones with a split driven element & a reflector or  director some of the DXpeditions are using.
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