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echo: ham_tech
to: ROY WITT
from: WAYNE SAROSI
date: 1997-02-25 19:28:00
subject: LPDA design.

In a message to Wayne Sarosi  Roy Witt wrote:
 > WS> I missed going to the Post Office due to a meeting that
 > WS> went through lunch. I'll mail the plans tomorrow. They are
 > WS> all ready to go.
 RW> Did you use a PC program to figure length
 RW> and spacing, or a long hand formula?
Long hand via the ARRL Antenna Handbook and a calculator.
 RW> I built an LPDA to cover the VHF TV channels to spite my cable
 RW> operator.  They cut off the NETWORK channels from LA, which have
 RW> better news coverage for the region than the locals do.  It's not
 RW> up on a pole and doesn't have a rotor yet, just laying on the
 RW> roof, pointed in the general vacinity.
Sounds neat. How big is it?  It appears the CATV people here are about
to do the same from what I hear. So ... I may make a 50 - 800 MHz LPA
for the job. Something about 6 to 8 feet.
-WS
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