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echo: ham_tech
to: IVY IVERSON
from: ROY WITT
date: 1997-10-03 09:22:00
subject: High Gain Antennas for 2M

Hello Ivy.
03 Oct 97 00:59, Ivy Iverson wrote to Roy Witt:
 RW>> provider who couldn't recieve a certain FM station without
 RW>> interference.  I built them a yagi designed for the  frequency
 RW>> of the station and mounted it from the rear with a
 RW>> counter-balance. A 5 element yagi for 97-100MHz...
 II>
 II> There is another way to this, as I learned when I was on the
 II> engineering staff of a University station in Iowa:
 II>
 II> Two cut-to-frequency yagis, one mounted 1/2 wave in front of the
 II> other, and connected with a 1/2 (or 3/4) wave harness.  The rear
 II> antenna feeds the receiver.  (I think I remember this
 II> correctly).  The F/B ratio is almost comeplete, as is the side
 II> rejection:      R  DE D  D     o--o--o--o To RX-/
 II> |\ ========|==\==|             \|           o--o--o--o
Well, it got messed up here, but I know what your drawing meant.  An 
interesting concept.  This was for rejecting a station off to the side of the 
reciever and you needed to recieve a station in another direction.  You say 
F/B ratio is almost complete.  What does this imply?
... "A phaser is the universal communicator."  - Worf
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