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Subject: | Re: [TowerTalk] Yagiis |
From: | "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com> |
Reply-to: | Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com> |
Date: | Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:48:25 -0400 |
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> There is no decrease in gain by using a OWA design. I have > carefully modeled the > OWA vs. conventional low impedance feedpoint designs. The > only draw back to the > OWA is one additional element for a given boom length > (this close spaced 1st > director creates a 50 ohm feedpoint impedance for direct > feeding and great VSWR > bandwidth - nothing more). The gain and F/B bandwidth are > not changed by the use > of the OWA feed system design. > Hi Tim, The OWA article says they give up gain. http://www.naic.edu/~angel/kp4ao/ham/owa.html What software are you using? My Eznec 5 sure doesn't handle tapered elements well. 73 Tom _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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