Jack, Yes, the beam could be shortened with helical wound elements of wire. This was a beam shown in the ARRL Handbook way back, not sure if 1957 or when. You could even make the elements of ham sticks!
You can fed one side with a monopole approach to get impedance matching, see the Kent Brittain designs of cheap VHF beams in CQ VHF magazine. He may also have them on the web, all wire elements there, too. The Gotham vertical and beams of the 1950's all used thin Aluminium tubes for elements and gamma matches for the beams. GL and 72, Stuart K5KVH _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft You must subscribe to post. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, Unsub etc): http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft page: http://www.elecraft.com
