[50mhz] 6m anyone?

[Christopher Boone]

My 1st gain antenna on 6m was a 4 element yagi on a 10ft boom (I used 
the ARRL VHF Handbook which had a 5 element on a 12ft boom as model)...
All made from conduit...(thin wall)..except the mast...which was 1.25 
inch pipe...drilled thru the elements and used U bolts from Radio Shack 
to hold them on the mast....made the gamma match out of RG8 coax for the 
capacitor and another foot long cut of conduit for the stub....attached 
it to the main element with #12 solid wire and hose clamps! (also had 
pieces of a plastic bottle with tie wraps supporting it on the ends for 
spacers)...not bad SWR and had a decent b/w (the lower 500 or so kHz)

It sat at 30ft off the ground.....had it pointing NE...but when the band 
opened, didnt really matter.....but it worked much better than my dipole 
or homemade groundplane I had up before then...(ahhh the good ole days 
when I was a young teen climbing my tower at midnight...during a school 
week!! mom never knew)...

ran a borrowed Gonset G50 on it; maybe did 30watts tops!...zerobeated 
the SSB guys to work them...(the rcvr VFO made an ok BFO!) later when I 
had to return the G50, I had a Knight T150 and my NC300 with a 6mtr 
convertor on it.....and then, came FM and later SSB on 6...
Ahh the memories of back in the 70s near Port Arthur......heck Im ready 
for 6 again!! Its the only decent band left in my book.....

Chris
WB5ITT
NW Houston, TX

Jim Isbell wrote:

> Some years ago I used a 2 element beam on a 10 foot pole that I anchored 
> under my front tire and connected the 12 watt transmitter to.  Yes, I 
> looked for high spots, but when the band was open it didnt take much.
> 
>> It only has 2 elements on 6m and I will only have it up about 25 feet 
>> high, but hopefully with 100W I can expect to work the waek ones that 
>> I hear if I can just HEAR them!

>> Please sign your emails with your name and/or call.  Anyway onto your 
>> questions.  A 2el quad on 6 even at 20-25 feet will be sufficient when 
>> the band is open and onto your other question, no band just hasn't 
>> been open when I've been around.
>>
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