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Subject: TopBand: Beverage terminating resistor
From: w8jitom@postoffice.worldnet.att.net (w8jitom@postoffice.worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:55:53 +0000
> From:          Bill Hohnstein <k0ha@navix.net>

>   Why is there so much concern on Beverages and Yagis on front-to-back
> ratio?  I always design my Beverages and Yagis to have a small back
> lobe with two nulls on either side of it to increase the size of the
> null area...

Good point Bill.

What I've found in real life is the resistor doesn't "steer" the null 
much, it just makes it deeper. 

Does it work differently with virtual reality antennas?

73, Tom W8JI

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