I put a 6N2 on 6 Meters for my first ever on that band. The antenna? 3-el
homebrew Yagi. Feed system is 1/4 wave of RG-213, ends shorted, center of braid
split and fed with RG-213. Slipped into split driven element. Worked great
Dave
WA3MKB
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From: Jim WA9YSD <wa9ysd@yahoo.com>
> It is a wounder that these antenna companies has not made an HF yagi
> with a folded dipole or a DB antennas as the driven element. They all
> ways come up with some thing strange. Must be too expensive. The DB
> and FD has the best coupling factors that equals 1 or 0.9. A dipole is 0.1 .
> Now one would conclude that if you had wide spaced elements on a yagi
> that the DB and FD would be used. You think?
>
> Strip the braid off of some RG8X and slide the center piece down the inside
> of a
> driven element of you favorite yagi and tune the driven element and see what
> happens.
>
> So many people have computers these days, and antenna programs, that they
> just
> do not go out side and experiment. The Wheel has already been invented folks.
> It just needs a new groove to make it work better.
>
> Keep The Faith, Jim K9TF/WA9YSD
>
>
>
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