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

Patrick Greenlee patrick_g at windstream.net
Fri Sep 18 08:33:21 EDT 2015


Driving?  Hmm, might have only been a short putt.

On 9/18/2015 7:21 AM, Rick Stealey wrote:
> Correcting the title spelling which was driving me crazy.
>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:24:47 -0400
>> From: paul at n1bug.com
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Has anyone every put up a V-beam?
>>
>> I had two inverted V beams (a 3 element on NA and 4 element on EU)
>> on 20m before I had rotatable antennas. They worked quite well. I
>> don't know what the gain was but much better than a dipole. Signals
>> from one direction went down 20-30 dB when I switched to the other
>> direction.
>>
>> Paul N1BUG
>>
>>
>> On 09/17/2015 10:20 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
>>> A vertical is also omni directional but multiple verticals definitely have a
>>> pattern.  I have modeled an inverted V yagi for someone in Aruba and the
>>> patterned looked fine.  Many people build them by stretching a single boom
>>> rope between two towers and tying the ends of the elements to something on
>>> the ground.  Most are not installed super high and do not have a low
>>> radiation angle.
>>>
>>> John KK9A
>>>
>>>
>>> To:	<towertalk at contesting.com>
>>> Subject:	[TowerTalk] Has anyone every put up a V-beam?
>>> From:	"Jim Thomson" <jim.thom at telus.net>
>>> Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:09:23 -0700
>>>
>>> ##  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
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