[VHFcontesting] 6 Meter Yagi's

[Chuck Watts W4XP]

It's tough to beat this line of 50-MHz Yagi antennas:
https://directivesystems.com/50-mhz/
The hall mark of these antennas is the construction quality, durability and performance!
I had the JX5-50 up at this Northern Virginia mountain-top location for 10 years and it performed great. (It would still be up but an ice storm brought down my rotating pole and destroyed the antenna!)  At K8GP's FM08 Spruce Know contest site we used 4 X JX5-50's stacked with two fixed and two rotatable for 10 years, and they helped us beat W2SZ/3 several times!  We used one of the JX7-50, also a great performer!-- 
 Very 73,
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Chuck W4XP -- FM18ew; 1.8 - 10368.100 MHzNovice Class (5 WPM Code; 20 question written exam by mail): June 1959 as WV6GVC; age 12
Technician Class (5 WPM Code; General Class, 50 question written exam by mail): June 1960
Conditional Class (13 WPM Code; General Class, 50 question written exam by mail): 1967, Andersen AFB, Guam
General/Advanced Class (13 WPM Code; General and Advanced, 50 question written exam, for each, at FCC office); November 1970
Amateur Extra Class (20 WPM Code; Extra Class, 50 question written exam at FCC office); January 1971
Other calls: WA6GVC, WA1NEU, KH6FB, WA6GVC/VP9, KG4XP, VQ9XP, 9M2/W4XP, 9V2/W4XP, IT9/W4XP, I4/W4XP, JR6/W4XP, JA6/W4XP, EA4/W4XP, EA8/W4XP and ~20 more.
Memberships:Delmarva VHF and Microwave Society, K8GP
Grid Pirates Contest Group, http://k8gp.net
Ole Virginia Hams Radio Club, W4OVH
AO-27 Control Operators Association, N4USIRadio Amateur Satellite Corporation. AMSAT
Guantanamo Bay Radio Club, KG4AN
Diego Garcia Radio Club, VQ9AX
Potomac Valley Radio Club
 

    On Thursday, January 8, 2026 at 10:06:01 AM EST, Glenn via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting at contesting.com> wrote:   

 What are all the cool kids using for 6 meter Yagi's these days. I'm looking to replace an aging 6m5 with something more modern. 

 

73, Glenn WB5TUF 

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