[TowerTalk] 10/15 yagi design
Ken Boasi
n2zn at rochester.rr.com
Thu Jul 9 18:24:59 EDT 2020
Hi Dave,
Have a look at this design from K1IR-it may be what you’re looking for.
https://www.yccc.org/Articles/Antennas/K1NQ/K1NQ-1015yagi_1.pdf
73, Ken N2ZN
> On Jul 9, 2020, at 4:42 PM, Dave Sublette <k4to.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I should have expressed myself more clearly. I am interested in only yagi
> designs, no wire beams, no quads, no traps. Picky, aren't I? :-)
>
> All of the antennas I listed and the one I am going to build are mounted on
> one, Rohn 55, rotating tower, 155 feet high, with rotator at the 5 foot
> level.
>
> I've used traps in the past. I have used quads in the past. Both designs
> are good for particular situations. But for higher efficiency, I'm going
> to stick with full size, all metal tubing antennas.
>
> K4TO
>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:49 PM Dave Sublette <k4to.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am looking for a design for a 10 and 15 meter yagi on a single boom. I
>> have a couple of ideas to model, but I thought I would ask here to see what
>> your favorites are. I don't want to buy a commercial product. I have
>> plenty of boom and element tubing and have home brewed all of my antennas
>> through 432 MHz for 30 years.
>>
>> I use a program called Antenna Model which works quite well. In the past
>> three years I have modeled and put up a pair of 40M Moxons, a four element
>> 20M OWA (G0KSC design modified for my tubing sizes), and a full sized 40M
>> dipole. They all work great and match the model closely.
>>
>> I'm just looking for ideas.
>>
>> Thanks and 73,
>>
>> Dave, K4TO
>>
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