05-15-14 11:56 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Antennas by Roy

 RW> {at}MSGID: 
 RW> Greetings Ed!
Howdy! Roy,
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 EV> So a Quagi looks like it has two square reflector sections instead of
 EV> reflector elements?

 RW> No, a Quagi has a quad reflector and driven element. The rest
 RW> are parasitic orhestra* leaders. 8^) > directors*

Yes, Tom already set me right about Your antenna.
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 EV> As I was typing near the end of this message I remembered a SQUALO
 EV> Antenna, if I spelled it right, and just had to write about it.
 EV> I think it was a Square Halo antenna way back in the 1960's for 6M
 EV> and maybe 2M. It's been a L O N G time since I've thought about
 EV> those.

 RW> SQUALO is an acronym for Square Halo antenna. These aren't the
 RW> same antennas.

That's as close as I could tell from the antennas I've seen advertised
in the Ham Radio Mags long ago.
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 EV> It has been a long time since I seen a Gizmotchee Antenna.
 EV> The ones I saw IIRC only had two sections, Yours has four.

 RW> Note that it has one driven element for either vertical or
 RW> horizontal polarization. Tha required two lengths of coax run
 RW> to a switch box at the operating station. I used RG8 for that.
 RW> Coax was cheap in c1969.

 EV> Remember I never heard them called by that name until You mentioned
 EV> it some time ago.

 RW> What were they called then?

I've got no idea what they were called, I just thought they were only
on houses where someone used a 27 Mc/s Citizens Band Radio, I never saw
one in any QST or CQ or 73 Mag advertisement to know their name, or who
manufactured them.
Back then Mosley and Hi-Gain were the companies advertising, Beams and
later I remember seeing Cush-Craft antennas advertised.

I forget who it was that made the V-80 Vertical that a friend sold me
to use on 80M and 40M, I only now remembered it was called the V-80.
That was my first Antenna and it was a long time ago too.

Later on I got a Hustler Center Loaded Whip, but I don't think they
made any Beams.
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 RW> I also have one of my wife holding a wave guide in front of the
 RW> back door to my shop; to show it in proportion to familar
 RW> things.

I've seen them too, they're real small, but they do the job.
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 RW> IMO, Wayne Green did that the best of all. Yeah, he rambled on
 RW> about his US Navy experiences during WW2 aboard a submarine,
 RW> but he also had some very interesting and challenging ideas.

Never Say Die is what came to my memory when I saw Wayne Greens name.
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 EV> There are thoughts I remember sometimes of things I experienced many
 EV> many years ago and probably are of no use to most people, but once in
 EV> a while those memories come back to me and I even may mention them to
 EV> someone.

 RW> That's ok to do, as it is something you have experienced
 RW> yourself. Quoting someone else's work to bolster your position
 RW> on something without giving them credit, isn't. And we can all
 RW> learn from such sources, if they're given credit where credit
 RW> is due.

When I wrote "experienced" I also meant "remembering what
I've read".
I don't usually remember who wrote what to give them the credit when
I write about what I remember they wrote.

Such as, I have no idea who wrote this, or if it was a Cartoon:

"The only time I use the word Hertz is when I stick my finger in an
electrical outlet, then I get 60 Hurts per second.".

I don't know who, but I remember what I saw written.

But now a days, if someone doesn't like the color of my socks, they
can sue me in court and win judgement against me.
It worked at McDonalds over Hot Coffee didn't it?

 EV> While writing the above paragraph I remembered a man I knew in
 EV> Alameda, California who was a Ham in his younger days, who told me he
 EV> welded two Dimes on his Telegraph Key to use with his Spark
 EV> Transmitter, because he kept burning out the contact on the Keys he
 EV> used. When he told me this he wasn't licensed anymore but told me
 EV> about it after learning I was a Ham.

 RW> I can believe that. Especially when you consider that sending
 RW> morse code requires interupting the Continous Wave of a CW
 RW> transmitter. Especially a spark transmitter.

Of course when He transmitted he didn't have to worry about causing TVI
because there weren't any Television Sets.
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 RW> Yeup...(as I contemplate the way in which I'll be making that
 RW> little UHF LPDA for experimenting on 'how to gain reception of
 RW> some Austin, TX HDTV stations' that have escaped me so far)

I wish You luck in designing and cutting that antenna.

73  dit dit

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