[Elecraft] Featherweight Yagi Design Questions

[Stuart Rohre]

Jack,
Yes, the beam could be shortened with helical wound elements of wire.   This
was a beam shown in the ARRL Handbook way back, not sure if 1957 or when.
You could even make the elements of ham sticks!

You can fed one side with a monopole approach to get impedance matching, see
the Kent Brittain designs of cheap VHF beams in CQ VHF magazine.  He may
also have them on the web, all wire elements there, too.

The Gotham vertical and beams of the 1950's all used thin Aluminium tubes
for elements and gamma matches for the beams.

GL and 72,
Stuart
K5KVH