[Boatanchors] antenna

[Glen Zook]

What you are looking for is described in the August
1959 issue of QST.  I built one of these when I was a
novice (this particular issue was the very first one
that I received) and it worked very well.  Modified it
from the wooden boom to a metal boom after I got my
general in November 1959 to lighten up the assembly in
terms of weight.

If I remember correctly, the title of the article is
"Adding a reflector to the one element rotary".

I worked my very first real DX as a novice (Canada
didn't count since VE3 was closer than the south end
of Indiana the state in which I was living at the
time), KC4USB at Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica.  It
turned out that a local amateur ran a lot of phone
patches for them and was also one of their QSL
managers.  He called me on the telephone just after I
finished working the station and told me that my QSL
card was waiting for me.  I "hopped" on my bicycle and
had the card in my hands in less than 10 minutes. 
Probably close to the record for DX contact to having
the QSL card in hand!

By the way, it uses 4 sections of 10 foot long e.m.t. 
Two in each element.

Glen, K9STH

 
--- Leon Wiltsey <rebooted1@hotmail.com> wrote:
 
BaCK in the middle 60's I built a 2 element 15 meter
beam using 2 sections of 1/2 in thinwall it had a very
simple matching network to coax just a turn or 2 to
one of the elements.  Would like to build it again but
cant find anything about it HELP

=====
Glen, K9STH

Web sites

http://home.attbi.com/~k9sth
http://home.attbi.com/~zcomco

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