Re: results of new US antenna design - advice sought
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Jeff K8NA, It took about a year of design, several jigs and a two & three person effort to get the assembly working as the elements needed stringing with wires that always sagged until we came up with braces and fashioned a set of custom fasteners amd supports. Out goal was to make it transportable... for you know field day, shipping and storage.?
The mechanical SME and ham cursed me many times at changing requirements of course. This is a very difficult design not really suited for homebrew one offs IMHO.?
It sure sounds like this:
The date of the article is probably around 2003, given the comment here:
In the 70's and 80's my crowd played around a lot with metal tape on plastic sheet antennas, mostly VHF yagis.? Mechanical challenges were often challenging.
We tried a few fractal HF antennas, too:
interest and experimentation is novel HF designs seems to roughly correspond with sunspots, and since n5ese's work was at a time when solar activity is about what it is now (pretty good),? I think its probably a good time to experiment with one of these, if you're so inclined.
73, have fun! Jeff kn8a
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