[TowerTalk] OptiBeam OB2-40M

[VE6WZ_Steve]

Mike,
I plan to make YouTube video about this, but did you read the modelling section of my 80-40m Yagi paper?
Perhaps that is exactly the message in the bottle if you are looking for?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IksvND0LfeSBcH6j7UEWkyjkIvexDIgX/view <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IksvND0LfeSBcH6j7UEWkyjkIvexDIgX/view>
There I show and explain the relationship between driver tuning relative to the parasitic tuning and effect on SWR bandwidth.

Also, I really think this particular video I made is vital to understanding how a 2 el Yagi works:
https://youtu.be/2DcvmGPLdT0 <https://youtu.be/2DcvmGPLdT0>

73, steve ve6wz


> On May 23, 2021, at 2:31 PM, Mike Zak <mike at brookblue.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a paper, article, YouTube video, Powerpoint deck, chapter in a book, website, message-in-a-bottle, or anything else, that clearly and succinctly describes the trade-offs and interactions between yagi gain, pattern, and match?
> 
> A 15 minute session with EZNEC, and a candidate yagi design, is plenty adequate for showing that there’s some serious systems engineering involved in coming up with the right set of trade-offs, starting with “which problem are we trying to solve?”  But few of us are ever going to capture the ideal design and then fabricate it.  So maybe if there was some insight around these tradeoffs we could all do a better job with our selections of commercially available products.
> 
> Did W4RNL ever do anything along these lines? Or W2PV?  How about the Telrex archives?  Anyone have any suggestions for something that is readable by mere mortals?
> 
> Mike, W1MU
> 
> 
> 
> From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Reply-To: "jim at audiosystemsgroup.com" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Date: Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 3:11 PM
> To: "towertalk at contesting.com" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] OptiBeam OB2-40M
> 
> YES! SWR is NOT an indicator of antenna performance.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
> On 5/23/2021 9:40 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> 
> On 5/23/2021 7:29 AM, VE6WZ_Steve wrote:
> I have received a few direct email questions about this thread…..
> Just to be clear, the reason for inductor switching at the Yagi
> elements is NOT only to get a “good, low SWR" match at the driver.
> 
> The “SWR” and “matching” at the feedpoint is really NOT the issue.
> 
> The real issue is tuning the REFLECTOR across the band.  That is what
> determines the gain and F/B performance.
> The PARASITIC element needs to be incremented across the band to
> maintain maximum gain and F/B performance.
> 
> Yagi SWR has very little to do with performance.
> 
> Steve, ve6wz
> 
> 
> Another great posting from Steve.  It seems like this point
> has to be constantly repeated on TT to counteract marketing
> hype and wishful thinking.  When I first got my MonstIR,
> I did some experiments where I set the tuning for 40 CW
> and then QSY'ed to 40 phone, without retuning the MonstIR.
> Of course the SWR went way up.  I then used the custom
> tuning feature to tweak just the driven element for SWR.
> This did improve the VSWR somewhat, but the gain and F/B
> were still lousy.  SWR bandwidth doesn't equal pattern
> bandwidth.  And the MonstIR is a full size 3 element
> design (yes, 70 foot elements), so it will tend to do
> better than a shortened 2 element.
> 
> Rick N6RK
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