[TowerTalk] Has anyone every put up a V-beam?

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:32:11 -0400
From: Scott Johns <scottw3tx at verizon.net>
To: <sawyered at earthlink.net>, <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Has anyone every put up a V-beam?

Several years ago WA2WVL had a really nice lecture on 80m long-boom
inverted-V Yagis at the Dayton Antenna Forum.  It's been on my bucket list
ever since.

An important safety aspect of these antennas is to make sure the
terminations are on posts well above head level of people and wildlife.

73, Scott W3TX

##  That’s not a vee beam u just described,  it’s a wire yagi with
inverted vee els.      What the fellow is talking abt is a old style vee beam,
which is one half of a rhombic. 

##  The problem with a single  inverted vee is.... it radiates omni directional...off the ends
and the sides.   Unless the enclosed angle is like 150-180 degs, I cant see making a 
wire yagi from inverted vee els having much success.   Has anybody modeled it ? 

Jim  VE7RF