Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Choosing a High-bands Yagi (Part 3) - 3-element Tri-bander

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Continuing on from Part 2 of my analysis of small high-bands yagis, it is time to evaluate 3-element tri-band yagis. In this category I inc...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Choosing a High-bands Yagi (Part 2) -- 2-element Tri-bander

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Having established a reference yagi in the previous article I now want to explore the first of several categories of small-sized yagis: 2-e...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Choosing a High-bands Yagi (Part 1)

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Big antennas are serious business. They are costly, require large (and expensive) towers and rotators, and even with all this effort they ar...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Venturing Into a SSB Contest

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On a whim I decided to enter the CQ WPX SSB contest this past weekend. Since getting back on the air over a year ago I have stuck to CW, on...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Tuners Do Not Solve All Ills

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I do not have antennas for 80 and 160 meters. That may not sound like a profound statement yet, for me, it is. As far as my DXing goes it ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Late-winter Doldrums

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Too cold to work on antennas but so close to warmer weather that I can't bring myself to only plan but not do anything outside. I have p...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Moving Into the Shack

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As you might be aware the winter in central and eastern North America has been long, cold and snowy. This makes it difficult to put antenna ...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Detuning a Tower from a Vertically-polarized Antenna

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In my previous article on a 2-element loop array for 40 meters I issued a caution regarding the potential harm from a tower that is resonan...
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