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Re: [TowerTalk] When was the first tower & beam used?

To: "Dan Hearn" <dhearn@air-pipe.com>,"Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>, "Terry Gerdes" <terry@ab5k.net>,<towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] When was the first tower & beam used?
From: ersmar@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:11:43 +0000
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TT:

     Here's a posting on the subject of Yagi(-Uda) antennas that I made back in 
2003:  
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-01/msg00215.html .  
Appropos yet a bit tangential to the subject at hand.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dan Hearn" <dhearn@air-pipe.com>
> I have a book "Yagi-Uda Antenna" by Uda. The forward was written by
> Hidetsugu Yagi. Here is a quote from the forward by Yagi.
> "The so-called Yagi-Uda antenna, consisting of wave-reflectors and
> wave-directors, was first presented in a publication by one of the
> co-authors of this text (Uda) and the writer during the year 1926" Amazing.
> 73, Dan, N5AR
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jim Lux
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 7:21 PM
> To: Terry Gerdes; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] When was the first tower & beam used?
> 
> 
> At 05:09 PM 9/12/2006, Terry Gerdes wrote:
> >Jim,
> >
> >I have copies of a few pages from the Basset Handbook of Rotary Beam
> >Design for 1939.  The Bassett folks had a series of commercial
> >products like a 4 element 20 meter antenna with a rotor for
> >$121.  The boom was not round but looks more like a ladder.
> 
> 
> Interesting.. What was the design of the 4 element antenna?  I don't
> know that Yagi-Uda design was known by then, certainly not widely.
> 
> That was a pretty pricey antenna.. $121 in 1939 is $1771 in 2006 if
> you use the CPI
> http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
> 
> 
> >They also had some interesting tower sections that were made of
> >wood.   For $88, you could purchase a 36 foot wood tower that was 3
> >feet square at the bottom and 15 inches square at the top.  Each
> >tower section was 6 foot in length.
> >
> >I'm also interested in other options on the market from this era.
> >
> >73 Terry - AB5K
> 
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