[TowerTalk] OWA Inventor?

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

The OWA design was originally credited to Nathan Miller, NW3Z, a grad 
student working for WA3FET.  See 
<http://www.naic.edu/~angel/kp4ao/ham/owa.html> for a detailed paper.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 12/12/2013 4:33 PM, Kelly Taylor wrote:
> 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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