[AK-VHF] New 2m yagi is up

[Edward R Cole]

Nice sunny day, yesterday, so I put up a ten foot long crossboom on 
the face of my tower #2 at 45-feet.
I hung an eleven element KLM yagi (half of a KLM-22C satellite 
antenna), and mounted a ARR  MSP144VDG-160 switched GasFet 
preamp.  Still have to install coax jumper and dc wiring for it to be 
functional.
http://www.kl7uw.com/HF.htm
photos half way down page

This antenna looks at roughly az=45 toward Anchorage with 13 dBd gain 
(roughly the same as one of my eme yagis), but is wideband covering 
144-148 MHz.

Pretesting on a 10-foot mast on my back deck:
144.200 fwd=30w, ref=2w    SWR=1.7
146.52   fwd=30w, ref=1.5w SWR=1.6
147.000 fwd=25w, ref=0.5w SWR=1.3
147.93   fwd=25w, ref=0.5w SWR=1.3

This will be my dedicated FM simplex antenna which should support 
running up to 150w.  Day-to-day use will be 30w with the Yaesu VX6-R 
HT and Mirage B108 amp.  I expect signals will be ten-dB better than 
using my ARX-270 vertical due shorter coax, more antenna gain and 
being higher.  It may still be about 3-dB less than using my eme array.

73, Ed - KL7UW
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