In a message dated 9/20/2006 4:08:26 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
richard@karlquist.com writes:
> More power to him, but my understanding from gurus such as
N6BV and W3LPL is that he would be better off with a stack
of 3 element Yagi's. Possibly even a stack of 2 element Yagi's
would be better than one 5 element most of the time.
Anyone remember the cover of QST with W6VSS's 5 element 40 meter
beam (circa 1963)? W6VSS told me it was really hard to keep
the thing up.
I totally agree. A 2 or 3L stack will give almost the same performance
at significantly lower cost.
But I wouldn't mind operating this Elephant Gun sometime!
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
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