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Alleycat
Junior Member
Username: Alleycat
Post Number: 15
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 1:05 am: | 
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Read about this antenna on the net somewhere. If you do a search for 15 Meter V-Beam you will find it. It's just an Inverted V set up horizontally like it is lying flat on the floor and you aim the open part of the V in the direction you want to talk. They were going to start working on one for 6 Meters. It sounds like it could work well on 11 Meters and be easy to make out of 1/2" copper pipe. Feed line is 50 ohm coax and a Gamma Matcher is not needed. Add a choke balun at the feed point if you would like. The articles I read were from around 2002 but I have not found much information newer than that. The antenna sounds interesting and the numbers on gain look good. Does anyone have any more information on this antenna? Does it realy work or was it just a flash in the pan that went nowhere?
Thanks, Alleycat KI4KHT |
Goat373
Junior Member
Username: Goat373
Post Number: 15
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 10:08 pm: |
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Alley,
I've made one of these Ant.s before...i took it down in search of better front to back ratio...however, it had almost 100% rejection side to side...but only about 1 s-unit differance front to back...but...it does work |
Alleycat
Junior Member
Username: Alleycat
Post Number: 19
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 3:28 pm: |
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Thanks for the info. Goat. It does not sound like your results were as good as they made thiers out to be. I got some 3/8" Aluminum rod to make it out of but I might just save it to make a Yagi insted.
Thanks again, Alleycat KI4KHT |
Goat373
Junior Member
Username: Goat373
Post Number: 17
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 8:04 pm: |
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the vee is a fun one to expeirement with...but...#1, angle is had to get right, and #2 for some reason mine was a TVI deamon...id build a vee with the scrap left over from the yagi |
