[TowerTalk] OWA Yagis was 40m 4el KLM - replacing linear loading with coils

[Jeff Blaine]

Another factor is the width of the band.  I have a homebrew 3-element 
30m full size + 4-element 17m combo that uses a conventional hairpin 
match on both bands.  The 12m is a similar hairpin matched type.  The 
WARC bands are so narrow vs. the frequency that you don't run into the 
issues that we have on much wider bands.

My other antennas for the conventional HF bands are OWA type. And that 
is for all the reasons mentioned prior.

73/jeff/ac0c
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
www.ac0c.com


On 4/30/20 8:13 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> Even more so if you have a solid state amp,  many trip off at 1:5 or 2:1
> SWR.
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> Steve Maki K8LX
>
> The boom length has more to do with gain than element count.
>
> I'm guessing if you had OWA's you would be sold on them.
>
> Especially if:
>
> 1) Your amp(s) are not solid state broadband types.
> 2) You have stacked monobanders.
>
> The flat SWR curves give you easy to achieve no-amp-retune wide
> frequency moves and stack combos. You go - yep, this is the way it was
> meant to be.
>
> -Steve K8LX
>
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