05-15-14 11:56 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Antennas by Roy   
      
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    RW> Greetings Ed!   
   Howdy! Roy,   
   -snip-   
    EV> So a Quagi looks like it has two square reflector sections instead of   
    EV> reflector elements?   
      
    RW> No, a Quagi has a quad reflector and driven element. The rest   
    RW> are parasitic orhestra* leaders. 8^) > directors*   
      
   Yes, Tom already set me right about Your antenna.   
   -snip-   
    EV> As I was typing near the end of this message I remembered a SQUALO   
    EV> Antenna, if I spelled it right, and just had to write about it.   
    EV> I think it was a Square Halo antenna way back in the 1960's for 6M   
    EV> and maybe 2M. It's been a L O N G time since I've thought about   
    EV> those.   
      
    RW> SQUALO is an acronym for Square Halo antenna. These aren't the   
    RW> same antennas.   
      
   That's as close as I could tell from the antennas I've seen advertised   
   in the Ham Radio Mags long ago.   
   -snip-   
    EV> It has been a long time since I seen a Gizmotchee Antenna.   
    EV> The ones I saw IIRC only had two sections, Yours has four.   
      
    RW> Note that it has one driven element for either vertical or   
    RW> horizontal polarization. Tha required two lengths of coax run   
    RW> to a switch box at the operating station. I used RG8 for that.   
    RW> Coax was cheap in c1969.   
      
    EV> Remember I never heard them called by that name until You mentioned   
    EV> it some time ago.   
      
    RW> What were they called then?   
      
   I've got no idea what they were called, I just thought they were only   
   on houses where someone used a 27 Mc/s Citizens Band Radio, I never saw   
   one in any QST or CQ or 73 Mag advertisement to know their name, or who   
   manufactured them.   
   Back then Mosley and Hi-Gain were the companies advertising, Beams and   
   later I remember seeing Cush-Craft antennas advertised.   
      
   I forget who it was that made the V-80 Vertical that a friend sold me   
   to use on 80M and 40M, I only now remembered it was called the V-80.   
   That was my first Antenna and it was a long time ago too.   
      
   Later on I got a Hustler Center Loaded Whip, but I don't think they   
   made any Beams.   
   -snip-   
    RW> I also have one of my wife holding a wave guide in front of the   
    RW> back door to my shop; to show it in proportion to familar   
    RW> things.   
      
   I've seen them too, they're real small, but they do the job.   
   -snip-   
    RW> IMO, Wayne Green did that the best of all. Yeah, he rambled on   
    RW> about his US Navy experiences during WW2 aboard a submarine,   
    RW> but he also had some very interesting and challenging ideas.   
      
   Never Say Die is what came to my memory when I saw Wayne Greens name.   
   -snip-   
    EV> There are thoughts I remember sometimes of things I experienced many   
    EV> many years ago and probably are of no use to most people, but once in   
    EV> a while those memories come back to me and I even may mention them to   
    EV> someone.   
      
    RW> That's ok to do, as it is something you have experienced   
    RW> yourself. Quoting someone else's work to bolster your position   
    RW> on something without giving them credit, isn't. And we can all   
    RW> learn from such sources, if they're given credit where credit   
    RW> is due.   
      
   When I wrote "experienced" I also meant "remembering what I've read".   
   I don't usually remember who wrote what to give them the credit when   
   I write about what I remember they wrote.   
      
   Such as, I have no idea who wrote this, or if it was a Cartoon:   
      
   "The only time I use the word Hertz is when I stick my finger in an   
   electrical outlet, then I get 60 Hurts per second.".   
      
   I don't know who, but I remember what I saw written.   
      
   But now a days, if someone doesn't like the color of my socks, they   
   can sue me in court and win judgement against me.   
   It worked at McDonalds over Hot Coffee didn't it?   
      
    EV> While writing the above paragraph I remembered a man I knew in   
    EV> Alameda, California who was a Ham in his younger days, who told me he   
    EV> welded two Dimes on his Telegraph Key to use with his Spark   
    EV> Transmitter, because he kept burning out the contact on the Keys he   
    EV> used. When he told me this he wasn't licensed anymore but told me   
    EV> about it after learning I was a Ham.   
      
    RW> I can believe that. Especially when you consider that sending   
    RW> morse code requires interupting the Continous Wave of a CW   
    RW> transmitter. Especially a spark transmitter.   
      
   Of course when He transmitted he didn't have to worry about causing TVI   
   because there weren't any Television Sets.   
   -snip-   
    RW> Yeup...(as I contemplate the way in which I'll be making that   
    RW> little UHF LPDA for experimenting on 'how to gain reception of   
    RW> some Austin, TX HDTV stations' that have escaped me so far)   
      
   I wish You luck in designing and cutting that antenna.   
      
   73  dit dit   
      
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