Thursday, November 30, 2023

Parallel Dipole for the 6 meter band

 My 3 element gamma-fed yagi crashed about a year ago.  I hadn't done anything with it, and its mangled carcass has been lurking behind the shed.  Recently my club built a cage dipole for 40m, which got me thinking.  Why couldn't I just make a cage or parallel dipole for 6 meters?  It should work.

So over lunch I took the old antenna apart, and tossed the broken pieces.  There were enough good parts to make my experimental parallel dipole.

The pieces I had left over were just a tad short, so it does cover the whole band at 1.5:1 at top of the band, with the ideal resonance somewhere around 51Mhz.



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