No worries-it’ll make a nice winter project. Right now I’m taking full advantage of sunshine before the rainy season starts.
Dan Presley 503-701-3871 danpresley@me. com n7...@arrl.net > On Sep 24, 2022, at 20:47, David Gilbert <ab7e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't really have a good setup for making videos, but when I get the chance > I'll make one showing how I built it and how to set it up. Might be a while, > though. > > 73, > Dave AB7E > > >> On 9/24/2022 7:29 PM, Dan Presley wrote: >> Thanks Dave for the reply. That sounds like a great antenna and I’d >> definitely like to see a picture and maybe a bit more description if you’d >> care to. I enjoy playing with portable antennas and might try to build >> something like that over the winter. One that I put together last year was a >> two element vertical Yagi based on the article by a Japanese ham (forgot the >> call) in QRP quarterly a few years back. It uses a driven element and a >> quarter wave reflector,and the reflector uses a quarter wave matching >> section connected as a radial. Think of basically a ‘U’ shaped setup. The >> original was suspended from tree branches but I set it up for ground mount >> using two 20 foot small fiberglass fishing poles. It actually gave some >> reasonable gain on 20 and you could steer it a bit by moving the reflector. >> For field day our club is QRP CW and two of us built a 2 element wire Yagi >> for 40 from an article in QST a few years back. We feed it with open wire >> line and because our site has very tall trees we have it up about 60 >> feet. This year we set it up as a sloper. Killer antenna on 40 and actually >> loads and works quite nicely on 20 and 15. We also put up a horizontal loop >> for 80 at the same height. We’ve either won or placed 2nd in our division >> for a few years. Nothing beats big wire,but when I’m hiking I gotta rethink >> everything and go small-thus the AX1/2 and simple wires. >> >> Dan Presley 503-701-3871 >> danpresley@me. com >> n7...@arrl.net >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
