[TowerTalk] OWA Inventor?

[Kelly Taylor]

Virtually every reference on Google searches to the Optimized Wideband
Antenna refers to WA3FET as the inventor. None refers to N6BT. Most also
co-credit K3LR for the OWA.

You might be able to outfox some Google search results, but not every single
one.

N6BT's contribution, which I don't mean to disparage, is a system to couple
multiple driven elements parasitically to eliminate traps in multi-band
antennas. He referred to them as multi-monoband arrays, since most of the
F12 antennas use discrete elements for each band of operation rather than
using traps to multipurpose elements.

The OWA, if I recall correctly, was around before Force12 was even a gleam
in N6BT's eyes. And, again IIRC, the OWA is a monoband antenna that uses two
driven elements and specific element spacing to provide consistent gain,
matching and F/B over a greater portion of a particular band than typical.

73, kelly
ve4xt


On 12/12/13 3:13 PM, "Steve Sacco NN4X" <nn4x at embarqmail.com> wrote:

>   Scott -
> 
> I have wondered from time to time about this assertion: "... the
> inventor of the OWA...WA3FET."
> 
> It is my understanding the Tom, N6BT developed the what is now known as
> "OWA" design with his Force12 line of antennas.
> 
> I've had quite a number of Force12 antennas at my station, and was one
> of the first owners of their 6L 20M and 6L 15M models. Somewhere along
> the line, I also purchased a Force12 8L 10M Yagi. They all have the "D1
> very close to DE" characteristic of the "OWA" design.
> 
> 73,
> Steve
> NN4X
> EL98jh
> 
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