[amsat-bb] Arrow modification

[David Swanson]

I've built cheap yagi's with the 2m/70cm elements on the same plane (
http://www.druidnetworks.com/same-plane-cheap-yagi.jpg) and used them to
work down to the horizon on all the FM birds - from a clear location of
course. Check out the AMSAT facebook page from about a year ago, and my
youtube channel for the videos if you're super interested.

According to WA5VJB's ubiquitous document (
http://www.wa5vjb.com/references/Cheap%20Antennas-LEOs.pdf) the plane
alignment shouldn't matter so long as the elements aren't interacting with
each other. He's a much smarter cat than me, and after building such gizmos
based on his design, I have no reason to believe an arrow built in the same
fashion wouldn't also do the trick.

-Dave, KG5CCI

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 9:37 AM Bill Acito <w1pa at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Doug,
>
> I been thinking about this as well.  One antenna (arrow) for those birds
> with antennas at 90 (SO-50), and
> another for those birds with them in line. I've been looking at parallel
> designs(think "trident") e.g. take my elk, use that for 2m, and have a
> clip-on parallel spot for a 432 or 1.2G beam.
>
> Tired of doing the TX-90-degree-twist.
>
> Bill W1PA
>
>
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