[NLRS] Yagi Spacing Q..

[KB0NLY]

That's what I'm leaning towards for a number Brent, so thanks for confirming 
that I'm thinking correctly, and a big thanks for the website link!!  I was 
digging through my old antenna handbooks for the same information but I 
thought that's how you figured the capture area.

73,

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent Casavant" <b.j.casavant at ieee.org>
To: "KB0NLY" <kb0nly at mchsi.com>
Cc: "NLRS" <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Yagi Spacing Q..


> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, KB0NLY wrote:
>
>>
>> The manual shows that the 124WB should be 56" apart when mounting them
>> vertical and spaced horizontal, and the A449-6S should be 25" apart.  I
>> thought about going with the 56" measurement as its the lower of the two
>> frequency wise after reading websites on stacking yagi's.  Just looking 
>> to see
>> what others could now suggest, because i would like the width to be as 
>> small
>> as possible yet still give good performance from the antenna's.
>
> The best easy-to-understand information I've ever seen on this topic is 
> at:
>
> http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek/stacking/stacking2.htm
>
> Reading between the lines of that page and what you wrote, to me this says
> that the radius for the capture area of your antennas are 28" and 12.5"
> respectively.  Adding these radii together, it would seem that 40.5" would
> be a good stacking distance.
>
> Then again, I *barely* squeaked through my EM fields class in college,
> so I'm not the best of people to ask. :)
>
> Brent
>
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